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Both the New York and Michigan statutes came under harsh criticism from both the political left and the political right. William F. Buckley, one of the most conservative public figures in America, was staunchly against it, as well as many in law enforcement, who saw inherent unfairness in placing the non-violent crime of drug trafficking on a par with murder.
Others, such as former drug court Judge Morris Hoffman, have theorized that drug courts "cause net widening due to the increased willingness by police to arrest offenders should they receive treatment versus jail time and an increased willingness by offenders to try drugs when facing less serious legal consequences." [19]
This was the Kings County Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison Program (DTAP) in New York which is “recognized as one of the nation’s most successful diversion programmes”. [5] However, the reason this result appears better than all the others is because it refers solely to reduced offending by graduates – those who completed the programme.
A 2014 study that analyzed data from medical records in the New York City jail system [61] found that while self-harm was significantly correlated with having a serious mental illness regardless of whether or not an inmate was in solitary confinement, inmates with serious mental illness in solitary confinement under 18 years of age accounted ...
New York City officials under several administrations have implemented programs involving the involuntary hospitalization of people with mental illnesses in the city. [29] Some of these policies have involved reinterpreting the standard of "harm to themselves or others" to include neglecting their own well-being or posing a harm to themselves ...
Image credits: The Hollywood Reporter #12 R. Kelly. Former singer and record producer R. Kelly was sentenced to 20 years in prison in early 2023 for three charges of producing child sexual abuse ...
Imagine what someone inside the jail could do with a gun. In that same search, in the Downtown Detention Center third floor medical unit, investigators found a .38-caliber Ruger and ammunition ...
Bucks inmate gets 7 years in drug death Bucks County inmate sentenced for providing drugs that killed another prisoner in 2022. As a result of the delay Diggs said he was placed in a medically ...