These New Yorkers Went to Prison Over and Over. Then This Thing Happened.

These New Yorkers went to prison over and over. Then this thing happened. – New York State is paying top dollar to imprison people suffering from addiction and mental illness. Is that the best use of taxpayer money? Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI), involving programs like drug treatment and intensive counseling, are both cheaper and more effective at stopping the cycle of crime. Putting ATI in the Governor’s Executive Budget would provide a sustained, stable funding stream to maximize the impact of these cost-effective programs. This video was made in partnership with the ATI-Reentry Coalition of New York.

Prison for pill dealer who failed in treatment

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options. LOCKPORT – Romel L. Brundidge, an admitted drug dealer who washed out of the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in state prison Tuesday by Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III.
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Healthy appetite for life

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A quick look at his calendar shows how far he travels each month, with sitting days in Parliament and visits to inner-city drug and prisoner rehabilitation centres interspersed with a few days back home in Moree, then out to places like Warialda …
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Newtown stunt may put Chesco gadfly back in prison

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Riches allegedly identified himself to reporters as Jonathan Lanza; said his nephew, who killed himself as well as his mother, was a schizophrenic on antipsychotic drugs; and encouraged photographers to snap his photo as he prayed at a memorial site …
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