Alabama suffers crime because of drugs, it punishes people because of drugs, it builds billion dollar prisons and signs billion dollar prison healthcare deals because its justice system is overrun by the consequences of drugs. It forces people to spend lifetimes in prison because of drugs, it uses the presence of drugs as an excuse to put addicts back inside, and if it put a fraction of the effort into rehabilitation it would save more people, more money and more families.
I would kill myself if I was to be locked up in Alabama. It’s one of the most barbaric prison systems in the USA. And while there may be worse in other countries, the USA prison system is very awful.
Compare it to that mass shooter who has what amounts to an apartment in another country (I think Nordic). Was posted on Lemmy a few weeks ago.