Crime Doesn't Pay — It Costs

Published March 27, 2013

Crime doesn't pay — it costs

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Mental health services and drug and alcohol treatment programs are effective at keeping people out of jail and prison in the first place, at a lower cost. But when those programs suffer budget cuts, the resulting increase in crime rates pushes more …
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Former Drug Warriors Say Marijuana is Dangerous in Order to Get Rich

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

But when it comes to the drug war, the family tree is more like a thicket of interests among law enforcement, federal and state prisons, pharmaceutical giants, drug testers and drug treatment programs—all with an economic stake in keeping pot illegal.
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Drug War Profiteers Named and Shamed

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Then there's the mandatory rehab laws for first-time pot possession that send millions of kids into places like those owned by Mel Sembler, a Florida shopping-mall magnate who founded Straight Inc. "a drug-treatment program that used sleep deprivation …
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