Do you doubt their legitimate grief? What would you do? This is clearly not about money.   For years law enforcement, politicians and the media have been criminalizing addiction and demonizing those accused of crimes--including drug addicts--and those incarcerated. They have been lying to the public and fear mongering to get funding for the correctional and law enforcement industry.   They've been falsely touting incarceration as the cure for all ills.  The fact that people are now being educated about our dysfunctional system in the  worst possible way--by loved ones dying due to it's uncaring negligence--is no laughing matter.  The fact is that the only thing that has ever produced change in corrections and/or law enforcement is legal action resulting in significantly can't monetary loss and embarrassment to those in power.    People like you are a huge part of the problem. You won't learn until it happens to you or to someone you love.  That's not only sad, but pathetic.