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NY: Camp Gabriels Hopes to Become a "Treatment Center" in response to changes in Rockeffer Drug Laws

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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They never give up thinking about how to lock people up! Senator pushes plan to turn Camp Gabriels into a treatment center By EMILY HUNKLER, Enterprise Staff Writer March 6, 2009 GABRIELS - Local institutions and politicians have come together to once again try and save Camp Gabriels, and this time it would mean turning the prison into a treatment center for drug-and alcohol-addicted, nonviolent offenders. In an effort to showcase the potential of Camp Gabriels becoming a transitional treatment prison, state Sen. Betty Little, R-Queensbury, toured the facilities Thursday with Sen. Ruth Hassell-Thompson, chairwoman of the Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections Committee, which oversees the state Department of Correctional Services. Representatives from the governor's offices and the state Department of Correctional Services were also there...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 28, 2009 (boomark / email).