Prison Report Recommends Drug and Alcohol Treatment

Published February 18, 2013

Prison report recommends drug and alcohol treatment

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

It recommends diversionary programs to non-violent repeat offenders who are Indigenous and have a substance addiction. The committee's Gino Vambuca says diversionary programs would also help to cut prison over-crowding and save money. "Taxpayers …
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Prison realignment: Good for state, bad for counties?

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Additional emphasis has been placed on drug courts, and programs for mental health treatment, as well as classes for jail inmates, including 12-Step drug and alcohol classes, anger management and others. "Many of these programs were not previously …
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Letter, 2/17: Why prisons needed

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

… prisoners who pose no threat and why they are in prison? Include their rap sheets with all their prior arrests, which will include the times they have been put on probation, ordered to complete alcohol/drug treatment programs, or served time in …
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