Tag archive for ‘drug offense’
Addressing Drug Addiction among Offenders
by Diana DiNitto
Distinguished Teaching Professor,
University of Texas
On November 19, 2009, Professor DiNitto had the opportunity to testify before a hearing of the United States Sentencing Commission, marking the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. She highlights her major points from that appearance in the following commentary.- ED. [...]
Focus on Drug Treatment Expands; Recidivism Contracts
Prison reform advocates have long promoted the concept that treatment, rather than incarceration, would be a more effective and less costly alternative sentence for thousands of substance abusers comprising the majority of inmates now crowding the jails and prisons. Now a sitting judge of Harris County’s 177th Criminal District Court (TX) has added [...]
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