Senate President Pro Tem Perata’s Prison Reform Floor Speech

Senate President Pro Tem Perata’s prison reform floor speech – (For more, visit www.sen.ca.gov The Senate passed legislation today to increase prison beds, expand treatment programs for inmates and parolees and reform corrections management on a bipartisan 27-10 vote. AB 900 uses lease revenue bonds to generate .4 billion funding 53000 prison beds and expansions of rehabilitation programs. In addition, the measure sets a long list of conditions for the Department of Corrections to meet to eliminate gross mismanagement and improve rehabilitation, counseling, drug treatment and mental health programs. The provisions are aimed at reducing the state’s high recidivism rate.

Lawyer: Annabi addicted to Xanax, wants treatment

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Former Yonkers Councilwoman Sandy Annabi is addicted to the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and wants to enter a drug-treatment program when she goes to federal prison on corruption charges, her lawyer told the judge. “I can't live without it,” Annabi told a …
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Audit: Juvenile prison's drug programs lacking

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

(AP) — Auditors say drug treatment programs offered at the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex in Topeka are not adequately helping the offenders. The auditors noted that between 70 and 85 percent of offenders in the state's juvenile programs need …
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Locked up: Groups advocate for reduced prison population with treatment …

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Locked up: Groups advocate for reduced prison population with treatment programs for non-violent inmates. EAU CLAIRE, Wis. … A new study calls for $ 75 million of the corrections budget to be spent on inmates with drug and alcohol problems. On Tuesday …
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