In Oklahoma, an alternative to prison for nonviolent women
Four women who completed an intense rehabilitation program were handed dismissal papers from the Oklahoma County district attorney that dropped the criminal charges that normally would have sent them to the penitentiary. The hope is that after a year …
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Mass. goes opposite prison reform trend
Hill, a Republican, said that seeing how other states, specifically Texas, were able to implement treatment and reentry programs for drug offenders in order to close prisons and cut costs “opened [his] eyes” to the need for Massachusetts to reach …
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