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N.Y. court gives veterans chance to straighten out

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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N.Y. court gives veterans chance to straighten out By Don Heupel, USA TODAY BUFFALO ? When police entered Tom Irish's suburban Buffalo home on March 9 responding to a call about a disturbance, the 59-year-old Army veteran says he did not see uniformed officers. He says he was drunk on vodka, suffering from a flashback to his wartime experiences, and saw in his mind the Viet Cong soldiers he fought close to 40 years ago. "I'm still in recovery, still facing myself," Irish said as he stood last month before Buffalo City Court Judge Robert Russell in a courtroom half-filled with fellow military veterans in trouble with the law. Instead of time behind bars, Irish is in counseling. The felony weapons possession charge against him ? for brandishing a loaded shotgun at police ? likely will be dropped if he finishes everything required of him by Buffalo's veterans treatment court, according to Hank Pirowski, project director for Buffalo City Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).