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Newshawk: Index of Online HELP Documents http://www.mapinc.org/help
Pubdate: Sat, 20 Oct 2007
Source: Olympian, The (WA)
Copyright: 2007 The Olympian
Contact: http://www.theolympian.com/legacy/services/forms/letter2editor.shtml
Website: http://www.theolympian.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/319
Author: Jeremy Pawloski, The Olympian
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?159 (Drug Courts)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/rehab.htm (Treatment)
PROGRAM TREATS DRUG ABUSERS
OLYMPIA -- An eight-year study of Thurston County's Drug Court found that
graduates are less likely than other offenders to be subsequently convicted
of a crime.
The study found that the court saved $2.89 million that would have been
incurred by putting drug court attendees in jail, prison or by placing them
under community supervision.
"We can't keep putting people away forever," said Robert Kirchner of
Glacier Consulting Inc.
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