Pubdate: Sun, 02 Jun 2002
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Copyright: 2002 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Contact:  http://home.post-dispatch.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/418
Author: Tracey Schindler
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/prison.htm (Incarceration)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/rehab.htm (Treatment)

REHAB, NOT JAIL

If we want to balance the state budget, it might be worth looking into the 
overcrowded prison system. If we could change the mandatory minimums laws, 
we could treat drug offenders instead of giving long prison sentences, and 
we could save the state and the nation billions of wasted dollars. It has 
been proven that drug rehab works better than prison terms.

Tracey Schindler, Barnhart
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