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Beckett,
they work out payment plans all the time, every day. if you can't pay you come in & refinance another payment plan. if you did the crime you have to pay the fines & people do pay the fines & they do work out payment plans every day.

the really sad thing about sentencing people to AA instead of alternatives is that AA does not help or work. If the drunk driver or the convicted & paroled felon has a drug or alcohol addiction they may actually learn & benefit from a sane alternative with sane members. Cults & faith healing environments do not have much to offer to anybody those in need of assistance or any one else. That 5% who swear by AA, really how many of them really stopped their addiction because God took over? And how many of that 5% has another agenda, the predators, the lonely, etc.

Clara, I don't know why you keep throwing up this strawman. Please show us where anybody said the alternatives are free and AA charges. You're making things up again.

Clara pumping iron in the exercise yard covered in jail tats surrounded by her "crew"...lol

Shit Clara. You seem to bring my name into a lot of your posts. I know, I know. A lot of people bring your name too. But I do wonder, why do you mention my name as often as you do to give examples?

First of all, your other post about the same goes for SMART and SOS as an option for DUI's I do agree with. I commented more on that below (I think that’s where it ends up).

The part about “you should go to jail to for your using” (Like Avo), is not in the same ballpark as dui. I resent that (whoops!). DUI's are not sentenced because they were drunk or high, they were sentenced because they were driving WHILE they were drunk. Big, big difference.

I'm not saying that I wasn't bad, but I was the kind of bad that does deserve a slap on the wrist and MAybe a recovery sentence/fine. I'm not sure exactly what else, and I don't mind discussing that. I’m adamant that jail is not a proper sentence for using drugs. My illegal "things" involved buying drugs for personal use, and abusing it. I'm willing to take on the appropriate repercussions for that, or reluctantly would have been. But I'm not sure what they are and/ or should be. Again we can talk about that. But Clara, when you say that Avo has done things that are illegal opens the door to a lot of questionable acts, which isn't the case. Not that I’m Saintly, it’s just that I’m not “Avo, the big bad drug addict that goes to any lengths to get more”.

Also, I’m not condemning the drunk drivers as much as it sounds. I really believe that the nonsense sentences and the fact that repeat offenders get the chance to continue makes the situation seem of lesser importance than it is. Thus, more repeat offenders.