Thursday, July 12, 2007

California Commits to Fixing Prison Addiction Programs

It would be difficult to imagine a more scathing indictment of a government program than the Inspector General's report earlier this year on California's services for prison inmates addicted to alcohol and drugs.
The programs, the report said, were almost a complete failure. There was no evidence that they were preventing inmates from committing new crimes after their release from prison. And remarkably, inmates who went through some of the programs were returning to prison at higher rates than criminals who got no treatment at all.

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