This move is popular, but I think it's a bad move. 60 days incarceration is life destroying, people have jobs and families. The state doesn't care to help.
People will hide thier diseases if this is normalized.
People will hide thier diseases if this is normalized.
"The Tacoma woman, who is identified in court documents as V.N., was booked into a room "specially equipped for isolation, testing and treatment" at the Pierce County Jail, the local health department said, adding that she will still be able to choose whether she gets the "live-saving treatment she needs."
Um, the state was iirc picking up the treatment bill (not doing the whole Typhoid Mary thing of saying you cannot have a job, but you aren't getting any support either).
She chose not to get treatment, and it was made very clear that was an option, but she was required to isolate from everyone in that case. Instead she used public transit, casinos, she went to the hospital without telling any of the doctors she had an incredibly contagious disease.
What you're saying is we should not criminalize drunk driving, because then people will hide that they're drunk driving.