what would you do to help if your relative got their kids taken away?
cantthinkofaname asked: My sister has an alcohol problem and she recently got her 3 kids taken away and she cannot get them back until she completes a rehabilitation program but shes been stalling. I would hate to see the kids to go a group home so I decided to care for them. I also have [...]
Shouldn’t we stop treating nonviolent drug use as a criminal issue and started treating it as a medical one?
hellafunguy35 asked: Let’s face it, the “war on drugs” is a failure. We’ve spent untold billions in the drug interdiction effort, and drugs still permeate our society.
Isn’t it time we adopted a rehabilitative approach, rather than a criminal one?
Here are some benefits:
1) Less prison space would be taken up by nonviolent offenders [...]
Isn’t the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization on a Terror Watch List and hasn’t the government of Sri Lanka been?
the real shaz asked: been relocating people that have been displaced by the floods for several days? Infact the government had an emergency preparedness program established and had moved countless residents from several affected areas prior to the monsoon. So why is it that coverage of those events are non-existent but the coverage of an [...]
does anybody have the contact info for the VA central office?
Kismet asked: i have a civilian inquiry about physical rehabilitation programs for veterans and couldn’t find any contact information that didn’t have to do with claims or benefits. thanks!
Should the U.S. develop programs that focus more on rehabilitation than punishment?
butterfly asked: would this method reduce its rate of incarceration
Obama’s “Spread the Wealth”, does that mean making up new welfare programs?
robert asked: Welfare (financial aid), financial assistance paid by taxpayers to people who are unable to support themselves.
Workfare, an alternative model requiring recipients to participate in work-rehabilitation programs
The purported main goal of workfare is to generate a “net contribution” to society from welfare recipients.
Most commonly, this means getting unemployed people into paid work, [...]
If authorities *unlawfully* discover that you committed a crime?
Simfish InquilineKea asked: Then will you be charged with the crime if such crime is reported to authorities?
Say you commit a victimless crime that is a felony (say, possessing Schedule I drugs) and you’re not on a rehabilitation program. You disclose that you’ve committed it to your psychologist. Your psychologist, by law, cannot disclose information [...]
Would a “scared straight” program be just as effective in assisting with mental health issues as therapy?
redcarpetden asked: Say, take a person that’s dealing with mental health issues or perhaps involved in self destructive behaviors and get them involved in a “scared straight” program. If such programs are able to assist in the rehabilitation of youths involved in unlawful behavior who would otherwise have been headed for jail, would this type [...]
Disabled American Veterans, traumatic brain injured?
Chuck G asked:
I’m a Vietnam era DAV veteran, and I would like to hear from some retuning TBI or PTSD contemporay veterans who are having difficulty transitioning from active to disabled military status. I’m a volunteer at the Nsahville VAMC, and have not met any of you brave men & women who may have a [...]
Guess who showed on the Saudi Arabia most wanted list?
Dina W asked: A Saudi government spokesman says 11 of the Saudis on its recently issued most wanted list are former Guantanamo detainees.
Gen. Mansour al-Turki of the Saudi Interior Ministry told The Associated Press on Wednesday that among the 85 people listed by the government, 11 had been released from the U.S. detention facility in [...]