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Senate Dean promotes treatment options for nonviolent offenders

The Longview News-Journal has excerpts from a graduation speech given by Texas state Sen. John Whitmire to offenders who've completed the state's new DWI treatment program in Henderson ("Whitmire: Programs needed for nonviolent offenders," Dec. 16):The chairman of the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee, said Monday that the state needs to be more proactive in creating programs for nonviolent offenders within the prison system.State Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, told more than 130 graduates of East Texas Treatment Facility's DWI Recovery program ? formed after Whitmire introduced its legislation in 2007 ? that additional recovery programs are the ticket to reforming the state's prison system."We've done a real poor job dealing with nonviolent offenders," Whitmire said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).