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... Michigan Drug Treatment Initiative Initiative Petition Amendment to the Constitution A petition to reform drug sentencing practices and provide treatment instead of jail time for certain offenders in the state of michigan by amending article I of the michigan constitution to add new sections 24...

... Ohio Drug Treatment Initiative Be it resolved by the people of the State of Ohio that Article IV of the Ohio Constitution is amended to add the following section: Section 24 A. Intents and purposes. The purposes and intent of the voters in adding this section to the Ohio constitution...

... Arizona Drug Treatment and Education Fund Annual Report November 2001 EditorÕs Note: This excerpted report from the Arizona Supreme Court presents the most recent ofÞcial data on the operations and impact of ArizonaÕs Proposition 200. The complete report can be obtained at http www.s upreme.s...

...-examination it commendably chose to begin long before it lost quorum. Un nished Business: Revisiting the Drug Conversion Tables and Their Treatment of MDMA JONATHAN PEREZ-REYZIN J.D. Candidate, Yale Law School; Summer Intern, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies LESLIE BOOHER Senior Legal...

..., research demonstrates that drug treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy, diversion programs, etc. can be efficacious, while too often imprisonment is not. Second, the Commission’s decision making underscores Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in United States v. Mistretta : It is a junior varsity legislature...

...Meghan M. O’Neil, PhD This research article will contextualize drug testing and conditions of supervision by analyzing eight original in-depth interview and survey narratives provided by persons are in treatment for substance use disorder. We identify a gap in the literature surrounding drug...

... the drug court model has evolved as a treatment model for offenders with high criminogenic risk and high treatment need, some judges either disregard or are unaware of this shift. Participants are supervised more closely and are often given higher treatment dosages than they require to address...

... endure constant monitoring, perpetually under the threat of incarceration. Drug war policies and practices have profoundly shaped probation and parole. Regardless of someone’s original sentence, abstinence from drugs, drug testing, submission to warrantless searches, and court-ordered treatment...

... that are routinely encountered in federal drug cases. These disciplines support individualized sentencing by shedding new light on the nature of inhibitory control, the reasonable expectations for relapse, and the distinctions that can be drawn based on science between different treatment interventions...

.... BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges the courts to adopt treatment-oriented, diversionary drug court programs as one component of a comprehensive approach that (i) intervene with drug-involved defendants immediately after arrest and divert eligible defendants to treatment programs...

... the use of imprisonment and the associated costsÑstrategies that include new approaches to parole release and supervision, new laws which divert certain drug offenders into treatment programs, and new provisions which grant judges more discretion to explore alternatives to imprisonment in cases previously...

..., in light of our generally (overly) long prison sentences, back-end measures should be rethought ever more carefully. This article focuses particularly on one federal back-end mechanism, the Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program, which has excluded noncitizens from participating and receiving...

... and less hyperbole. What We Know We know that drug courts outperform virtually all other strategies that have been attempted for drug-involved offenders. They owe this relative success to two reliable facts: (1) drug abusers respond better to treatment than to any other disposition, and (2) drug abusers...

...: the Apprendi Subcommittee; the Drug Policy Subcommittee and the Risk/ Needs Assessment Subcommittee. This report reßects the work of the Subcommittees and the support of the Commission. The recommendations relating to the development of a statewide policy on the treatment of drug offenders in the criminal...

... and two-strikes laws, which impose strict mandatory minimum sentences on repeat offenders. More recently, voters have adopted initiatives that require treatment in lieu of incarceration for some drug possession defendants. Arizona initiated the trend by adopting Proposition 200 in 1996. California...

... procedures.2 As seen in the table on [p. 254], these changes focused on: diversion of drug offenders from incarceration through expanded treatment options; expansion of alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders; parole and probation reforms designed either to reduce time served in prison...

.... Opioid related overdose deaths have hit a critical point and have begun to reach traditionally unaffected communities. As communities wrestle with overburdened jails and prisons and insuf cient mental health and drug treatment facilities, policymakers and the public are challenging the strategy...

..., and their reintegration into society. There is a pressing need to provide these men and women with the education and training necessary to obtain and hold steady jobs, undergo drug treatment, and get medical and mental health services. Despite these needs, however, ex-offenders are confronted with the prison after...

... on Home Con nement. The legislation also expands a pilot program for eligible elderly and terminally ill offenders to be transitioned to Home Con nement as part of a pilot program. Since enactment of the law, 201 inmates have quali ed to be transitioned under the pilot program. Drug Treatment. The BOP has...

... quali ed to be transitioned under the pilot program. In response to FSA requirement to expand the use of outside resources, BOP added approximately 1,700 volunteers since December 2018. Drug Treatment Sobriety is a key in maintaining employment. The BOP has a robust drug treatment strategy...