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Twenty Years of Drug Courts -- Results and Misgivings from Drug War Chronicle

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Feature: Twenty Years of Drug Courts -- Results and Misgivings from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #580, 4/10/09 The drug court phenomenon celebrates its 20th birthday this year. The first drug court, designed to find a more effective way for the criminal justice system to deal with drug offenders, was born in Miami in 1989 under the guidance of then local prosecutor Janet Reno. Since then, drug courts have expanded dramatically, with their number exceeding 2000 today, including at least one in every state. According to Urban Institute estimates, some 55,000 people are currently in drug court programs. The group found that another 1.5 million arrestees would probably meet the criteria for drug dependence and would thus be good candidates for drug courts...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 12, 2009 (boomark / email).