Do You Think That Drug Treatment Programs in Prisons Are Effective? Why or Why Not? What Needs to Be Changed?
Question by ganicity: Do you think that drug treatment programs in prisons are effective? Why or why not? What needs to be changed?
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Answer by bob6543
i dont think they work. i dont think anything can be done to make them work
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Senate President Pro Tem Perata’s prison reform floor speech – (For more, visit www.sen.ca.gov The Senate passed legislation today to increase prison beds, expand treatment programs for inmates and parolees and reform corrections management on a bipartisan 27-10 vote. AB 900 uses lease revenue bonds to generate .4 billion funding 53000 prison beds and expansions of rehabilitation programs. In addition, the measure sets a long list of conditions for the Department of Corrections to meet to eliminate gross mismanagement and improve rehabilitation, counseling, drug treatment and mental health programs. The provisions are aimed at reducing the state’s high recidivism rate.
WRAL Documentary: Judgment and Redemption
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North Carolina's Drug Treatment Courts help address the problem by giving drug-addicted, nonviolent criminals an opportunity to enter a court-supervised drug treatment program instead of going to jail or prison. The cost of a person going through the …
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Alabama Segregates Prisoners In 'HIV Ghetto': Lawsuit
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… all prisoners with HIV from a host of rehabilitative and vocational programs that ADOC offers to all prisoners who don't have HIV — including trade schools, work release jobs, residential drug-treatment programs for prisoners struggling with …
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ACLU says Montana discriminates against female inmates with "degrading …
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A federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union accuses the Montana Department of Corrections of forcing women prisoners to participate in a degrading treatment program not required of male inmates— including mandatory singing and rounds …
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