Vt. Fights Drug Crimes With Treatment, Not Jail

Published March 22, 2014

Vt. fights drug crimes with treatment, not jail
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Heroin-related crime has so overwhelmed Vermont's courts and jails in recent years that lawmakers are poised to adopt sweeping standards for a statewide diversion program to get some offenders into drug treatment and out of the …
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Meet Smitty: armed robber, jailhouse rocker and casualty of the war on crime
… of circumstance in the government's war on crime. His story helps explain why Pennsylvania has the second-highest number of prisoners serving sentences of life without parole in the nation — a nation with the highest incarceration rate of any on …
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A Young Mother In Mississippi Could Face Life In Prison For Giving Birth To A …
Researchers agree that health disparities among children should actually be attributed to poverty, not to drug use. Nonetheless, these cases persist. A routine prenatal checkup for a pregnant woman in Wisconsin led to her arrest and involuntary 78-day …
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Events Listings: March 21 to 27, 2014
The Dangers of Gambling, a prevention education program for all ages presented by the Wyoming Valley Alcohol and Drug Services. Hoyt Library, 284 Wyoming Ave., Kingston. …. Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association Meeting, the spring gathering …
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