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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

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Justice Policy Institute
1003 K Street, NW Suite 500
Washington, dc 20001
Phone: 202-558-7974
Website: http://www.justicepolicy.org/
Email: info@justicepolicy.org