This is a big problem that needs creative solutions.
However, I'm nervous about a for-profit, investor-backed company getting into rehabilitation and criminal justice. When criminality becomes a profit center, these supporting companies are disincentivized to reduce crime or penalties for crime.
I can imagine companies like this will participate in lobbying efforts to keep recreational drugs criminalized as that's a huge population of offenders who will needs exactly these services.
I'd have a much better feeling if it was setup as a non-profit.
Agreed. Also, consider that growth, significant potential to scale, and high-end revenue are factors distinguishing startups from other kinds of businesses, and to be thinking of scale in this context is disturbing and flippant. This is not an area where "startup thinking" is appropriate.
However, I'm nervous about a for-profit, investor-backed company getting into rehabilitation and criminal justice. When criminality becomes a profit center, these supporting companies are disincentivized to reduce crime or penalties for crime.
I can imagine companies like this will participate in lobbying efforts to keep recreational drugs criminalized as that's a huge population of offenders who will needs exactly these services.
I'd have a much better feeling if it was setup as a non-profit.