WLKY Investigates: Non-Violent Drug Offenders Fill Jail

Published December 7, 2013

WLKY Investigates: Non-violent drug offenders fill jail – Non-violent drug offenders are part of jail overcrowding at Louisville Metro Corrections.

Questions over military record hover over court's leniency

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But he left the program and was arrested for DUI again, and again Kameen gave him a furlough to attend an addiction treatment center instead of prison. Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin's office has gone to the Pennsylvania Superior Court to …
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Experts hand Nebraska a prison reform map

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The CSG team said treating inmates for drug problems while in prison will reduce recidivism by 17 percent. But it will be cut 24 percent using drug treatment upon release and 30 percent with strict supervision and needs-based community treatment programs.
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A Grandchild's Love Quells the Demons of Addiction

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That all changed in 2009, when an arrest for the criminal sale of a controlled substance put a more permanent roof above her head: that of a jail cell on Rikers Island. The Neediest Cases For more than 100 years, The New York … Ms. Woods eagerly …
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