Jail vs Rehab for Drug Problems

Jail vs rehab for drug problems – People with drug or alcohol addiction problems are being sent to prison for non-violent crimes rather than rehabilitation centers where their problems would …

How Minnesota can reduce its prison population

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

For offenders who complete treatment in prison, he says, the recidivism rate is 17 percent to 25 percent lower than for other offenders. But he adds that the results are much better for the 10 percent who continue to participate in drug programs …
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Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglas Haynes III: No. 1 for me is economic equality

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

When someone, especially one of us, stands before a judge on a petty drug offense, we say don't lock them up. They don't need prison; they need treatment. And so we have a number of brothers – I can't even count right now – who are in our treatment …
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Quinn defends release program after ex-inmate charged with murder

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

The program Jones was released under is known as the "supplemental sentence credit," which allows inmates in jail on non-violent convictions to be released up to six months early by earning credit for things such as completing drug treatment classes.
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