Governor Chris Christie on Mandatory Drug Treatment: Let’s Not Turn Our Backs
Governor Chris Christie On Mandatory Drug Treatment: Let’s Not Turn Our Backs – Governor’s Budget Address. February 21, 2012 (Transcript Below) Governor Christie: In my State of the State address, I proposed to you that, for drug offende…
SPLC, ACLU bemoan closing of Miss. work centers
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JACKSON — Faith-based groups and advocates led by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union are asking Mississippi prison officials to drop plans to close four of the state's 17 community work centers where inmates do …
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(Not so) tough on drugs
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But the trivial treatment of the nadir in Madden's criminal history was a sign of the times. Though it is not politic to say so, … Queensland is the only other state that does not already have a similar diversionary program in place for people caught …
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Arenac County woman who failed to show for sentencing on methamphetamine …
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Bay County Circuit Judge Joseph K. Sheeran gave her a one-year delayed sentence, during which she was to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings and participate in an in-patient drug treatment program. Sheeran was to sentence her on May 13, 2013, court …
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Man who ended up at a bar drinking in a police standoff admits firearms charges
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Apland previously had received a three-year suspended sentence in a cocaine case in North Dakota, and told Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles Lovell that he had completed a 90-day drug and alcohol treatment program. “I attended Narcotics …
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