Jail Time or Drug Rehab?

Published October 12, 2013

Jail time or drug rehab? – Community leaders come together to fund new drug rehab centers.

Pioneer Human Services offers ex-inmates a new life, new job

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Then another inmate told her about Seattle's Pioneer Human Services, which offers programs for people who are re-entering society from prison or jail, or those who are overcoming chemical addiction and a mental disability. When Villalobos was …
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Stop the war (on drugs)

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Considering that current discussions of hard drugs tend to merely focus on prison sentence length or whether to put users into a drug treatment program, 20 to 30 years is perhaps even a bit optimistic. (While many activists view sentencing a drug …
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Crooks at new jail could be outnumbered by sick

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Brent Merchant, assistant deputy justice minister, said 56 per cent of B.C.'s provincial prison population have mental-health and/or drug-abuse issues. Those statistics raised … access treatment facilities or rehabilitation in one form or another …
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