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NY Times Editorial: A Court for Veterans

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

June 4, 2008 Editorial, NY Times A Court for Veterans There is a small bright spot on the normally bleak terrain for military veterans who return home and fall into addiction, mental illness and crime. Buffalo has established a specialized court to give veterans and their family members, mainly those accused of nonviolent crimes, a chance to avoid jail and rebuild their lives. The program ? the only one in the country, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs ? operates on the same principles of temperate justice and guided rehabilitation that govern ?drug courts? and ?mental-health courts,? which have been strikingly successful around the country in reducing crime, saving money and repairing lives. Buffalo?s experiment, profiled in USA Today, began after a city court judge, Robert Russell, and his office noticed more veterans, many with drug and psychiatric problems, coming through the system...continue to full post

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