addiction Archive

  • Over 12,000 New Yorkers are released from prison each year and many of them wrongly assume that a felony conviction prohibits them from voting, according to the NYCLU. To address the problem various advocacy groups throughout the city have held voter registration drives aimed at former felons.

    Voting as rehabilitation for ex-felon

    Posted on November 10, 2008 | 4 Comments
    Over 12,000 New Yorkers are released from prison each year and many of them wrongly assume that a felony conviction prohibits them from voting, according to the NYCLU. To address the problem various advocacy groups throughout the city have held voter registration drives aimed at former felons.

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  • The New York Times has an excellent article about punishment versus treatment. The article and slideshow have moving stories about several people's triumphs over addiction.

    Stern face of criminal justice gives treatment a chance

    Posted on October 15, 2008 | No Comments
    The New York Times has an excellent article about punishment versus treatment. The article and slideshow have moving stories about several people's triumphs over addiction.

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  • The Contra Costa Times, a local news paper outside San Francisco, has an interested piece that looks at the strengths and minuses of addiction treatment programs versus prison or jail terms by profiling 32-year-old John Delino who went in and out of jail and treatment programs until he pulled himself together. But that program, under California's Proposition 36, is running out of funding.

    Addiction treatment programs v. jail time

    Posted on October 13, 2008 | 2 Comments
    The Contra Costa Times, a local news paper outside San Francisco, has an interested piece that looks at the strengths and minuses of addiction treatment programs versus prison or jail terms by profiling 32-year-old John Delino who went in and out of jail and treatment programs until he pulled himself together. But that program, under California's Proposition 36, is running out of funding.

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