New Bill Studies Treatment Over Incarceration
The United States has 25% of the world's prisoner

ROSWELL, GA, September 16, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A new bill hopes to restructure the approach to incarcerating drug offenders by placing a larger emphasis on treatment vs. incarceration. The bill is being proposed by Senator Jim Webb and calls for the formation of a committee to explore new options for the failing criminal justice system.

The United States has by far the world's highest incarceration rate. With five percent of the world's population, our country now houses twenty-five percent of the world's reported prisoners. More than 2.38 million Americans are now in prison, and another 5 million remain on probation or parole.
While imprisoning offenders may provide comfort to some in terms of public safety, it does little to reduce the influences that cause these people to cycle in and out of the nation's corrections system. What is needed is a solution less costly than building more prisons and more effective at reducing recidivism.

Two decades of research into the effectiveness of drug rehabilitation in criminal offenders has largely gone unheard. Funding for efforts which allow drug offenders to receive needed treatment both in and out of prisons is being cut despite proof that treatment not incarceration is the most cost effective method of criminal rehabilitation.

There are several ways in which drug abuse treatment can be incorporated into the criminal justice system. These include therapeutic alternatives to incarceration, treatment merged with judicial oversight in drug courts, treatments provided in prison and jail, and reentry programs to help offenders transition from incarceration back into the community.

The stigma associated with drug addiction often makes it difficult to convince judges and district attorneys that rehabilitation is indeed an effective means to deal with the drug problems facing their communities.

Narconon Drug Rehab in Georgia was originally started as a treatment program for non-violent offenders. "A judge let me use the Narconon protocol on drug offenders and drug addicts to see if rehabilitation was a better route than incarceration," comments Mary Rieser, Executive Director for Narconon Drug Rehab in Georgia.

The Narconon program has long maintained that successful treatment can only be achieved through establishing comprehensive personal ethics. The treatment program delivered by Narconon of Georgia is an excellent choice for anyone seeking an alternative to incarceration.

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