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Incarceration for DWI fails without treatment

In the Dallas News, Christy Hoppe has a story voicing concern that next year's budget cuts at TDCJ could wipe out already sparse treatment funding for DWI offenders, reacting to a terrible case where a repeat drunk driver plowed drunkenly into a family from Lewisville, killing a mother and daughter ("Prison budget cuts threaten treatment programs for repeat DWI offenders," April 7):Most drunken drivers like John Patrick Barton mark time in the Texas prison system without specialized treatment, only to return to the streets and potentially to their drinking.And with Texas facing a monstrous $18 billion budget hole next year, what prison treatment programs the state does offer may be sharply reduced or eliminated, officials said Tuesday.Some vowed to try to protect treatment programs from the budget cuts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 07, 2010 (boomark / email).