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The Case for Treating Drug Addicts in Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Case for Treating Drug Addicts in Prison Treatment for drug addiction works better and costs less than imprisonment alone. So why are states abandoning it? Mary Carmichael June 29, 2010 Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/29/the-case-for-treating-drug-addicts-in-prison.html (part of a Newsweek Series--go to URL for links and graphs) For the last 16 years, Dr. Josiah Rich has gone weekly to prisons in or near Providence, R.I., to treat people being held there for drug-related offenses. Each time, he has wrestled with an ethical conundrum: not the issue of whether the offenders have done something wrong, but whether the American prison system is doing something worse. ?What I see is not bad people,? he says. ?Predominantly, I see people with a disease...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).