keepsimple:  are you proud that the USA imprisons vastly more than countries with more than 4x the population?  India also has 1.3 billion and also has a much lower prison population than we do.   Look it up.

I'm not the one running for office in a little over a month; but I would expect someone running for office to be able to answer that sort of question.  Why don't you ask it of the councilman who proposed this particular resolution?  

He's got to have a better solution than the health experts if he's ignoring their advice and experience.  Doesn't he?  

You'd hope so, but I don' think he does.  Thanks for making my point about prison populations for me, though.