About 65 cents of every real estate tax dollar is spent on our courts and jails. Does it have to be that way? Eighty per cent are there on drug and alcohol charges. Nearly 70% of all inmates will return to Chez Northampton. Doesn't it make fiscal sense to reduce that figure? That, and a common sense of decency, is what is behind John Stoffa's proposed treatment center and work release facility in Bethlehem Township.
"We have four people in a cell, four bunk beds, a commode and a hopper, and it is disgraceful the way we treat our people in our jail."
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