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...supports the notion that first- and second-time offenders shouldn?t go to jail, they should go to treatment. But he says people who are repeatedly caught with drugs only the threat of jail will keep them in a treatment program...
...Where does Walters stand on jail time versus treatment for drug users...
...living wage, or to call for an end to abortion access at University Health Services, the staff would undoubtedly write that they should not walk away unpunished. And even if the University eventually agreed with the protesters’ demands, the protesters would not deserve a get-out-of-jail-free card that would be denied to others whose cause is less favored by the president or the dean of the College...
Today the law excites little debate in Arizona as it funnels 6,000 new drug felons a year into treatment rather than jail. To be sure, Maricopa County district attorney Richard Romley complains about offenders who are "refusing treatment and thumbing their nose at the court." But a 1999 report by the Arizona supreme court--now being updated--found that 77% of offenders stayed off drugs during the year following their arrest and that the state had saved $2.5 million in prison costs. Probation officer Jim Frost, a 30-year veteran, didn't think treatment would work "without jail hanging...
...that day in her courtroom, McNally sent the sometime meth user back to his forklift and the mechanic and recovering cocaine addict back to his three kids. The pot-smoking teenager trailed behind his mother. Says the judge: "When somebody's threatening to throw you in jail, it doesn't feel like they care about you. Now there's a different attitude." And it is showing results...