He’s the first criminal justice official i’ve heard say (& has then followed thru on)

Treatment rather than punishment.

“A pure addict, what are we going to punish them for? They have a disease. You punish a disease?” Gilbert says. “You have cancer, am I going to punish you because you have cancer? Addiction is a disease. So, by punishing a disease you don’t help them one bit. We just create more people in jail that you and I are paying for that are getting nothing.”