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YaGirlKellie t1_jadyzce wrote

I want my family and friends who have drug problems to get medical help and social support not to get arrested, traumatized, and set back even further back in life by jail.

You are confusing prison with rehabilitation. It's not even close to the same.

The kid was, by the police's own admission, totally fucking fine and being taken care of and there were other adults in the house.

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Trance354 t1_jadyty1 wrote

There were warnings. LP knew what was going on, and chances to stop were given.

He was restricted to using a specific register, only. If that was in use, he was put to work on menial tasks until that register was available, lines or no lines. In one instance, we pulled the person who was working, audited her till, and brought it back for him to use, while putting the previous employee on a different register.

Cameras were adjusted to have better line of sight of that register. He watched them make the adjustments.

A policy sign-off was circulated having to do with theft, grift, and consequences, as well as the consequences for lottery fraud.

He was essentially told, "We're watching, don't do it again."

Missing all those hints was ... self-destructive, at best? It was this or rob a bank for the rush, I guess.

The warnings might as well have been in neon lights, and he still ignored them.

As for ruining his life? The world still needs ditch diggers.

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OneManFreakShow t1_jadylxu wrote

She was on meth. I understand how dumb the war on drugs is, but are we really going to overcorrect so hard that we feel bad for meth users that will ultimately get rehabilitated from situations like this? Someone using meth should not have a kid in their house, full stop. I promise he’s going to be much better off than if he didn’t tell them where she was and she ended up ODing.

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