The Dallas Prostitution Program: Nikki Lorenzini

To go to rehab or not to go to rehab? Honestly, I think rehab is a great idea. It is great to give the people a chance to turn their lives around, but you can’t force someone to go to rehab. I really think that sending people- prostitute or not- to jail is a fantastic idea. Yes, I said fantastic in regards to jail. Okay, so let me clarify this. Prostitution= illegal= jail. When something is illegal, and you are giving people a choice of what they want to do, what do you think people will choose to do? Jail time which can follow you, or just doing a stint in rehab?

Yes, I think rehab is a great jail, but I think it should be like salad dressing on a salad. Jail is a great place for people who commit crimes to be put in a place to think about what they did with the hope of changing. But how can you expect people to change without giving them the resources to change? I really do not believe that people can change on their own, they really need some type of catalyst to want to change. If you give a prostitute the option of jail or rehab, rehab seems like it will be the easy choice to make. And as the studies show, most of the woman did not change. I really think that they need to actually be threatened to loose everything to actually want to change, and jail seems like the best catalyst for that.

As for rehab being an extra expense to the tax payers, yes, it will be an extra expense. But why can’t we take away other privileges prisoners have? Can’t we take away their TV, radio, and work release privileges? I mean, you are in jail after all. Seriously, jail is there to help people, and entertainment is not a basic human need and can be lived without. In the end, I think that jail going hand in hand with rehab will be a better combo than just letting them getting to choose what they want to do.

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