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FL: Drug Treatment A Sensible Approach

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Drug treatment a sensible approach April 20, 2008 By Mark Fontaine As legislators wrestle with strategies to solve Florida's budget crisis, it is prudent that the state's limited resources be spent wisely. One of the smart investments the state has supported is community-based drug treatment for offenders on the verge of prison admission and drug treatment in prison for inmates on their way back into the community. According to the Department of Corrections, 65 percent of the 100,000 inmates in prison and 59.7 percent of the 153,000 offenders on probation have a substance abuse problem and need treatment. The state has contracted with community substance abuse providers for 14 years with positive results, the data showing that prisoners who received institutional treatment returned to prison at a lower rate than those who didn't receive treatment...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).