Group Wants Private Prisons to Rehab Fla. Inmates

Group wants private prisons to rehab Fla. inmates

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(AP) — A group with strong business ties urged Florida lawmakers to divert nonviolent felons into privately operated prisons for substance abuse and mental health treatment to cut costs and help prevent them from returning to crime when they are …
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Port St. Lucie struggles to deal with sober living homes in neighborhoods

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But in the short term, the city is starting to buckle under to federal laws that allow drug and alcohol rehab treatment centers to build transition homes for recovering addicts in single-family residential neighborhoods. … Handicapped individuals …
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Red Creek man admits setting car on fire, stealing pills

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Fandrich denied Sean O'Rourke's request to seek treatment in Willard Drug Treatment Center, sticking to the court's original agreement and sentencing the Auburn man to up to three years in prison for hot wiring a car. The judge explained after …
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Report: Invest in Drug Treatment Instead of Punishment

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Douglas Denton, executive director of Homeward Bound, a Dallas-based substance abuse treatment center, said that for people who suffer from addiction — which is classified by the American Medical Association as a diagnosable chronic disease akin to …
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