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Important new NACDL report critical of modern drug court movement

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this news release, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has today released an important new report on drug courts.  The title of the press release. "Drug Courts Endanger Rights, Block Access To Needed Treatment for Drug Users: Defense Lawyers Call for Major Overhaul," highlights that the NACDL is not in favor of extant drug court models.  Here is the start of the press release, which provides a partial summary of the report: Drug courts ? first created 20 years ago as an emergency response to an epidemic of drug-related criminal cases that clogged courts and prisons ? have in many places become an obstacle to making cost-efficient drug abuse therapy available to addicts and reducing criminal case loads, the nation?s largest association of criminal defense attorneys said today...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).