Bob Forrest & MusiCares: Rehab or Jail Time

Bob Forrest & MusiCares: Rehab or Jail Time – https://www.musicares.org/ The threat of serving time in the state penitentiary forced Bob Forrest to face the reality of really needing to detox and get cle…

We pay a price for not tackling prison issues

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Talking about the possibility of legislation, which would have to come in the next couple of weeks, to pay for such a rehousing program, the governor wouldn't specify where the money would be spent. For new publicly or privately … State officials who …
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War on drugs retirement long overdue, costly

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… a push for reform at the state and local levels. Those reforms — many already happening — should include a redirection of public dollars from building prisons to drug treatment programs so that society treats the root cause, not the symptoms of …
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Drug convict gets second chance in Teen Challenge

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A New London drug convict who had been kicked out of an intense, Christian-based substance abuse treatment program is getting a second chance with Teen Challenge. … Corrections officers caught the prisoner with the drugs in the jail March 30, 2009.
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