“Graveyard or Prison Yard”

“Graveyard or Prison Yard” – If not for VVSD’s treatment program, Jim Gaston says he would have ended up in either the graveyard or the prison yard. Now a culinary specialist at VVSD, Ji…

Vermont Bill Calls for Judges to Consider Costs in Sentencing

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

For example, a judge weighing a prison sentence for a second-time offender convicted of drug possession could search a database that showed that a sentence of five years of probation coupled with a drug-treatment program would cost $ 17,255. A 10-year …
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Crowding a concern after 2 killings at Ohio prison

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

The law forces judges to sentence some offenders to drug treatment programs or county jails instead of prison. Corrections officials and investigators have not said whether double-bunking or overcrowding played a role in the two inmate deaths in Toledo.
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