Falls Man Faces Prison After Flunking Drug Treatment
Falls man faces prison after flunking drug treatment
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… faces prison after flunking drug treatment. Tweet. options. LOCKPORT – A Falls man is likely to face a long prison term after Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas today outlined his lack of participation in the court-supervised drug treatment …
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New approach by California prison officials helps lower re-arrest rate for …
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The program helps prison officials target high-risk inmates with additional supervision and rehabilitation before and after their release. For example, inmates receiving drug treatment before their release were half as likely to commit new crimes as …
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Rise in prison gangs fuelling violence, drug trade
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Canada's prison system is grappling with an explosion of gangs that is fuelling violence and the drug trade behind bars and crime on the street, according to documents obtained by CBC News Network's Power & Politics. Corrections Canada has seen a 44 …
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Protesting Governor Corbett in Philly – Decarcerate PA, the Teacher Action Group, ACT UP, Fight for Philly and many others protest Corbett’s visit to the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. During his time as Governor, Corbett has made massive cuts to education, medical assistance, and social services while he is spending 5 million on new prison construction. His recent budget alone proposes 4 million in cuts to higher education, 9 million in cuts to general assistance, and a funding change that cuts another .6 million from Philly’s public schools. More recently the School Reform Commission, an entity created by Harrisburg when the state took control over Philadelphia’s School District in 2001, has put forward a plan to close 64 public schools. Governor Corbett has made his priorities very clear: Corporate tax breaks, mass incarceration and environmental devastation. We demand a different set of priorities for Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania needs quality public schools, stable housing, jobs and job training programs, health care and food access, drug and alcohol treatment programs, community-based reentry services, and non-punitive programs that address the root causes of violence in our communities. Instead of building more prisons we need policy changes that reduce the prison population and reinvest resources in our schools and communities. For more info see: decarceratePA.info http