Audit: Oregon Could Save Millions by Ensuring Ex-Offenders Get Drug Treatment
Audit: Oregon could save millions by ensuring ex-offenders get drug treatment
Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison
Secretary of State auditors estimate if all high-risk offenders in Oregon received drug treatment, state programs and crime victims would have saved $ 21.6 million between 2008 and 2011. The audit found help for county budgets, too, suggesting that …
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Brown's Prison Solution Conflicts with AG Holder's 'Smart on Crime' Plan
Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison
The second path is to take those resources and instead invest them in mental health courts, drug treatment, mental health treatment, vocational rehabilitation, evidence based programs, and seek to reduce the population in a more sustained way…that …
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California prisons: Senate Democrats reject Brown's plan to lease more cells
Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison
That grace period would be designed to give local rehabilitation and drug and mental health treatment programs time to work. Steinberg said such programs, if properly implemented, will lower the crime rate and, by extension, send fewer people to prison.
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Plaintiffs' attorneys in prison case support Senate Democrats' plan
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Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the prison overcrowding lawsuits said Wednesday they support a proposal by state Senate Democrats to increase spending on rehabilitation, drug and mental health treatment programs instead of expanding prison cells …
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