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...While politicians don't appear to be ready to abandon punitive drug laws, voters in some states are taking matters into their own hands. Arizona, which implemented Proposition 200 in 1996, has a "three strikes" rule of its own that seeks to rehabilitate and offender before jail time is imposed. On their first arrest for possession, drug users are sent to drug treatment and given probation. On their second arrest, users without violent past convictions get another round of treatment, and a maximum 12 months in jail. Only on their third arrest do users face time in state prison...
...Last November, California voters approved Proposition 36, which was modeled after Arizona's law. In California, users arrested for possession are sent to drug treatment for as long as a year and receive as much as a half-year of follow-up care. Users can violate parole rules several times before they are ultimately sentenced to prison terms...
...away from simply handing out jail time. Other states, including New York, are beginning to consider treatment as a viable alternative to prison, not only because treatment programs can be far less expensive than incarceration (for example, the estimated $19,000 it takes to feed and house an Arizona inmate for one year versus $2,000 to dispense an intensive rehabilitation program), but because of growing societal pressure on states to adopt a more humane approach to addiction...
...Perkins cites his own Hobart College, in addition to the University of Arizona, the University of Missouri and the University of Virginia (UVA), among others, as campuses where social norms strategies have been successful...
...amazing is how bad the numbers are--even after the deception. A recent independent review, apparently incorporating the misleading data, said the V-22s were fully prepared for their missions just 20% of the time, well short of the corps' 75% requirement. An Osprey crash last April in Arizona, killing 19 Marines, highlights the plane's maintenance woes. The Osprey had spent only 135 hours in the air during the three months the Marines owned it. Yet it needed 600 repairs--one fix for every 15 minutes of flying time. The Osprey is far less ready for action than...