Free voluntary treatment outside criminal justice is the abolitionist standard
Evidence
Like the Betty Ford program, their operation should not be under the auspices of the criminal justice system. As at the Ford Center, family members also should be permitted to participate. But unlike the Betty Ford program, they should be free of charge. For such programs to count as “abolitionist alternatives,” they would not be linked—unlike existing programs, to which individuals are “sentenced”—to imprisonment as a last resort. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 290
Categorization
- DEFINE: Specifies the concrete criteria distinguishing abolitionist drug programs from carceral ones.
- XREF: connects to: Abolition requires a continuum of alternatives, not prisonlike substitutes — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 284; Decriminalization of drugs and sex work advances abolitionist decarceration — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 291