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Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:39:12 -0700
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"It is clear that the very presence of drug courts is causing police 
to make arrests in, and prosecutors to file, the kinds of ten-and 
twenty dollar hand-to-hand drug cases that they system simply would 
not have bothered with before," Hoffman said.

Study authors said drug treatment in the community can reduce the 
potential for a person to relapse by 8.3 percent and produce $21 in 
benefits to victims and taxpayers in terms of reduced crime for every 
dollar spent. Drug treatment in prison produced only $7.74 in 
benefits, and drug courts less than $2 in benefits for every dollar spent.

<http://www.youthtoday.org/view_article.cfm?article_id=4694>http://www.youthtoday.org/view_article.cfm?article_id=4694 



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