Report: State Jails Are a Bad Deal for Taxpayers


 

Report: State Jails Are A Bad Deal For Taxpayers – A new report says state jails in Texas are ineffective, expensive, and actually result in higher recidivism rates than Texas prisons.The report from the Texa…

 

Sacramento County probation officers visit a house in Sacramento in February.

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

About 92 percent of Sacramento County's 22,000 probationers go unsupervised, meaning they don't receive drug tests, random searches or services intended to help them break free from criminal backgrounds. The lack of supervision helps explain … A few …
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NM among worst in child abuse deaths

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

Susan Miller is a psychologist at UNM's Carrie Tingley Pediatric Rehabilitation Hospital and has seen all too often the tragedy of child abuse in this state. She founded the New Mexico Child Abuse … It's really hard to get funding directed into …
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Drug barons' cars and luxury houses should fund rehabilitation for their victims

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

The Act states that the money is for the restitution or compensation for victims of crime, and in the early days at least some money was directed to the Drug Rehabilitation Fund. We should tweak this legislation once more. Most of the crimes involve …
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