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Notable comments on potential cost savings from AG Eric Holder at drug court conference

By Douglas A. Berman

The DOJ website has posted here remarks delivered today by Attorney General Eric Holder at the annual conference of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. The whole speech is worth reading for criminal justice fans, and these snippets seemed especially sentencing blog-worthy: Together, the people in this room have launched, led and sustained a national ? and now international ? movement.  It?s been just 21 years since the first Drug Court was launched in Miami.  Today, there are more that 2,400 Drug Courts, operating in every U.S. state and in 15 countries. Drug Courts now serve more than 120,000 people a year.  And, to date, over 1 million people have graduated from America?s Drug Courts.... Today, more than 60 percent of people arrested in this country are regular drug users...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).