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FL: Proposed funding cuts to successful drug treatment programs may leave thousands untreated

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Proposed cuts at the corrections department -- which could total almost $30 million -- would eliminate all substance-abuse treatment for prison inmates and those on probation, said Gretl Plessinger, an agency spokeswoman. The drug treatment cuts would be the deepest in agency history. At DCF, administrators have included an $11 million cut to programs that provide treatment services to parents at risk of losing their children. And the juvenile justice agency is eliminating a youth drug court in Alachua County among other possible trims." Miami Herald DRUG TREATMENT Budget cuts put drug addict's lifelines on the line Proposed funding cuts to successful drug treatment programs may leave thousands untreated Posted on Mon, Mar. 24, 2008 BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER cmarbin@MiamiHerald...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).