Jail Program Helping Rehab Repeat Offenders

Jail program helping rehab repeat offenders – The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is trying to reduce overcrowding in the county jail by helping inmates kick their drug habits and finding them new jobs. …

Jerry Brown has plan to ease prison crowding without early releases

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The Senate leader has called for more spending on mental health and drug treatment programs that can reduce the number of ex-offenders who return to prison, helping to lower the inmate population in the long run. Brown and Pérez said they also would …
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DUI Day 1: Drunken drivers swamp county court system

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But, as the supervising judge for the county's Treatment Court programs, she knows that prison sentences are not the only factor in the equation of DUI cases, specifically when it comes to repeat offenders. “There is the addiction side, and there is …
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