Patrick Brazeau's Belongings Appear Hurled Outside In the Snow
On Friday, he was released from custody on $ 5,000 bail — on condition that he undergo treatment at a rehabilitation facility and be at home between the hours of 11 pm and 7 am. Not a good night for the suspended senator. But only the latest in a …
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Avoid Coachella At All Costs
State jails were for low-level offenders, [and they are] heavy on rehabilitation. We built about 14,000 of them, and [they took] care of our …. Instead of funding the new prisons, they suggested allocating $ 241 million for treatment programs, both in …
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Bourdain Isn't Calling in Sick
State jails were for low-level offenders, [and they are] heavy on rehabilitation. We built about 14,000 …. Instead of funding the new prisons, they suggested allocating $ 241 million for treatment programs, both in and out of prison, and the creation …
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Prison Reform Is Bigger in Texas
In Texas, funneling money to special courts (like drug courts or prostitution courts), rehabilitation, and probation in an effort to make sure current offenders don't reoffend, instead of continuing to make room for more prisoners, has resulted in …
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Monroe County jail lacks rehab programs, inmates' relatives say
There is a profound lack of rehabilitation programs for Monroe County Correctional Facility inmates, two women charged Tuesday. Delfine Grayson told the Monroe County Prison Board that her husband was sent last month to a drug rehab program in …
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Watson: Inmate rehab programs break cycle of recidivism
But to break out of the cycle of recidivism, an offender almost always needs the extra boost, the advantages and the one-on-one attention conferred by smart rehabilitation programs, whether in jail or outside. —. Brian T. Watson is a regular Salem …
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State jails struggle with lack of treatment, rehab programs
Today, Texas' 20 state jails have a higher recidivism rate than state prisons: 33 percent of state jail felons are convicted of new crimes, compared with 26 percent of regular prisoners. The state jails also have fewer treatment and rehabilitation …
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State jails struggle with lack of treatment, rehab programs
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Gene Mooney, a small-time thief and drug user who was the poster boy for the creation of Texas' system of rehabilitation-oriented state jails in 1995, is still in prison. After all, had he received more drug …
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Ethnicity Influences Successful Completion of Rehab
… complete an alcohol rehab program than whites. In the study, reported in the journal Health Affairs, roughly half of all black and Hispanic patients who enter publicly funded alcohol treatment programs do not complete treatment — compared to 62 …
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