WSRE | Connecting the Community | Prison Reform

Published May 22, 2013

WSRE | Connecting The Community | Prison Reform – Governor Scott is proposing an overhaul of the Florida prison system. His proposed reforms would divert more inmates into treatment and education programs. G…

Obama's new drug war: More treatment, less prison time

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

President Barack Obama's new strategy for fighting the nation's drug problem will include a greater emphasis on using public health tools to battle addiction and diverting non-violent drug offenders into treatment instead of prisons, under reforms …
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The Next Step in Drug Treatment

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

… ago next month. They did little to curtail drug use in New York or in other states that mimicked them, while they filled prisons to bursting with nonviolent addicts who would have been more effectively and more cheaply dealt with through treatment …
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