I see what you are saying, and I am sure that none of us think of jail/prison as a country club, but I will tell you my own personal thoughts.
She already uses drugs. She already trades sex for drugs. She already gets assaulted and abused. At least in jail/prison she has a roof over her head and 3 meals a day. Heat and indoor plumbing and access to health care if she needs it. Mostly I know where she is and if she is alive or dead.
Mostly it is not waiting every day for that phone to ring from the ER or the county morgue. It is not waiting for the police to come to your door to tell you she is dead.
I've long accepted that this is the life she chooses. Nothing I can do can change that, but, at least, I can have a few years of peace not wondering every day where she is.
