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OPEN YOUR EYES

By JAABLOG

Friday's emergency PSCC meeting was canceled.  It's supposed to be rescheduled for some time this week, unless Sheriff Lamberti backs off his position to cut all in-custody drug treatment programs, in addition to shuttering the Stockade facility.Is Lamberti serious about the drug programs?  Or is this simply hardball politics, designed to gain some other concession from the County Commission, like a raise in property taxes which would take the pressure off of BSO?Let's hope Sheriff Al knows what he's doing.  Let's hope he's up to speed with the recent Columbia University and Northwestern University School of Law studies, recently highlighted in the New York Times, The National Law Journal, and the Chicago media.  The scholarship proves what everybody already knows: drug treatment saves money and reduces crime, while incarceration has the opposite effect...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on June 07, 2009 (boomark / email).