CNN CNN Newsroom February 8, 2014 21:17:00
Taxpayers in vermont are spending twice what they spent nine years ago locking folks up. i can put someone in prison in vermont and i do. for 136 bucks a week, i can put them in treatment for heroin and other opiate addiction that works and gets them back, not committing crimes, making the streets safer and saving vermonters a ton of loot they are currently wasting on a prison process so when they come out, they are likely to reoffend. that's what i say to folks in their heads. with hearts, i say whether it's philip seymour hoffman or whether it's your neighbor or someone you don't know, you k...