Q&A: Prison Expert Soffiyah Elijah on Reducing Prison Costs, Drug-Related Crimes

Q&A: Prison expert Soffiyah Elijah on reducing prison costs, drug-related crimes

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

And medical and dental care should not be being filtered through the correctional officers, because withholding medical and dental treatment is a way for them to retaliate against people who are incarcerated. All the people who are incarcerated say …
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How to Cut Prison Costs

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The states have expanded community-based drug treatment programs, improved postprison supervision and retooled parole systems that once shunted people back to jail not for actual crimes but for technical violations that are more cheaply and effectively …
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Rutland woman faces prison term for not returning rented car

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She also admitted that she violated probation by continuing to use crack cocaine while under supervision and by being discharged from a substance abuse treatment program before completing it. She was serving five years' probation imposed in June 2011 …
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