That is a really good documentary. At one point they showed McNeil Island, an old prison, which is evidently not being used. If they want to jumpstart their economy and take care of their drug crisis, they could train workers to do the remediation on the building to create a prison/drug treatment facility, and then house drug addicts in the prison/drug treatment facility like the one they visited back east that had good success keeping people out of jail. Win/Win
The construction industry needs new workers, the remediation would provide opportunities for training in multiple trades as well as office and health fields work. This could be run in conjunction with WA State Technical schools, maybe have sessions at the school, and time spent at McNeil putting it into practice as a paid intern.
I just watched the whole thing. Absolutely incredible that this was made and published on a Seattle news site. It is brutal in it's honesty. It is heartbreaking in the inhumane ways people are living. It is furiously maddening in how the people who are tasked with justice and public safety are abandoning their responsibilities and running a social experiment that has already failed. Thank you, OP, for bringing this to our attention.
I think Komo showed a documentary a long time ago called “Seattle is dying” (it’s on YT)
That is a really good documentary. At one point they showed McNeil Island, an old prison, which is evidently not being used. If they want to jumpstart their economy and take care of their drug crisis, they could train workers to do the remediation on the building to create a prison/drug treatment facility, and then house drug addicts in the prison/drug treatment facility like the one they visited back east that had good success keeping people out of jail. Win/Win
The construction industry needs new workers, the remediation would provide opportunities for training in multiple trades as well as office and health fields work. This could be run in conjunction with WA State Technical schools, maybe have sessions at the school, and time spent at McNeil putting it into practice as a paid intern.
Yep Eric Johnson did both of these.
this is old school pulitzer level shit
I just watched the whole thing. Absolutely incredible that this was made and published on a Seattle news site. It is brutal in it's honesty. It is heartbreaking in the inhumane ways people are living. It is furiously maddening in how the people who are tasked with justice and public safety are abandoning their responsibilities and running a social experiment that has already failed. Thank you, OP, for bringing this to our attention.
Too bad things drop pit of sight so fast
Agree. This is important.
I used to live downtown Seattle and had a business on the waterfront. I don't even recognize it anymore.
I can't believe this made it on KOMO local ABC.