New Substance Abuse Program Helps Rehab Female Offenders

New Substance Abuse Program Helps Rehab Female Offenders – CDCR launched a new “Trauma Informed Substance Abuse Treatment” Program this year for women at the Leo Chesney Community Correctional Facility. These were the first 200 positions of 2000 that are being placed across California. www.cdcr.ca.gov

Applaud more treatment, fewer trips to prison

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Enlarge Photo. The latest call for more treatment to keep offenders with drug and alcohol addictions and mental illness out of prison is welcome. … Technology is improving treatment and prison diversion programs through much better monitoring of …
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Audit: Juvenile prison's drug programs lacking

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(AP) — Auditors say drug treatment programs offered at the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex in Topeka are not adequately helping the offenders. The auditors noted that between 70 and 85 percent of offenders in the state's juvenile programs need …
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