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NH: Lack of money for treatment means prisoners can stay in prison for a year waiting for programs

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Inmates' treatment bottleneck means delays in release By TOM FAHEY State House Bureau Chief Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 CONCORD ? State prison inmates trying to earn parole, many of them with alcohol and drug abuse backgrounds, face a shortage of treatment programs they need to attend as a condition of being set free. Alan Coburn, a member of the Adult Parole Board, told a committee studying parole issues yesterday that because treatment options are few, many inmates ready for release remain behind bars for up to a year while they wait their turn. Substance abuse treatment and mental health counseling are considered keys to the success of a new state plan to move inmates out of prison more quickly, and focus corrections costs on the most dangerous inmates in custody...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).