Rehab Shock: Fight the Drug & Go to Jail
Rehab Shock: Fight the drug & go to jail – The 23-year-old head of a controversial Russian drug clinic has been sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for abducting addicts and forcing them into rehabilitatio…
Watertown woman faces up to 6 years in prison for heroin sale try
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27 to six years in prison, followed by three additional years of supervision upon her release. Judge Kim H. Martusewicz will mandate her sentence be served in the prison system's Willard Drug Treatment Program. If an inmate completes the 90-day program …
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DOJ Says Soaring Prison Costs Hurt Criminal Justice System, Calls For …
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WASHINGTON — There will be fewer federal prosecutors and FBI agents available to bring charges and investigate federal crimes, and less money to support drug treatment programs, unless the U.S. curbs federal prison spending, the Justice Department …
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A Family Affliction: Meth use destroys relationships
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After decades of drug use, six felonies on his record, four prison terms, and 13 stints in rehab, Deming is clean. He has held a job consistently, is engaged to be married in late August and is a newly devout church goer. He's now working to mend …
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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights
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They implemented the Alternatives to Violence Program, “a noncoercive, nonviolent conflict resolution regimen originally used in prison settings that was later adapted to violent schools.” Some predicted chaos. Instead, the opposite happened. In a …
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