Corrections officers in Mississippi want to create a drug rehab program for 300 inmates at the Columbia Training Center. Good idea. Doing a drug rehab program while you’re in jail could prevent ending up on drugs, and in prison, again.

Unfortunately, most prisons do very little rehabilitation. Instead, criminals learn new tricks, make new contacts, and often leave prison only to return to a life of crime. The same goes for drugs. In many cases the crimes are drug-related. In other words, if the person wasn’t involved in drugs, he would not be involved in crime.

A drug rehab program that gets down to the bottom of the drug problem, and down to the bottom of the crime problem, would enable prisoners to go home truly rehabilitated.

This alone would do wonders for society. And we could spend money on something other than keeping the prison revolving door powered up.

Prisons with successful drug rehab programs have been known to see some remarkable changes in recidivism - when the guy gets out of prison, he’s really able to live a productive, crime-free life, have a family, friends and career. And people who’ve gone through an experience like that often get involved in their community to help others do the same.

Let’s hope the plan is carried through in Mississippi. Drug rehab could change the lives of the prisoners, and make the state a much better place to live.

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