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Treatment or Incarceration? National and State Findings on the Efficacy and Cost Savings of Drug Treatment Versus Imprisonment
This policy brief from the Justice Policy Institute surveys research that shows that, on the whole, providing drug offenders with treatment is a more cost-effective way of dealing with substance addicted drug and nonviolent offenders than prison. Studies by the nation's leading criminal justice research agencies have shown that drug treatment, in concert with other services and programs, is a more cost effective way to deal with drug offenders.
 http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/04-01_REP_MDTreatmentorIncarceration_AC-DP.pdf
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Publication Year: 2004
Publisher Justice Policy Institute 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite B-500 Washington, dc 20008 Phone: 202-737-7270 Website: http://www.justicepolicy.org/Email: info@justicepolicy.org
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Boston University School of Public Health 
