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The failure of ‘tough-on-crime’ tactics

Left untreated, drug addicts pose greater costs for everyone else 
It was after midnight, and Dawn Jacques lay sleepless in her cell at the Adult Correctional Institutions, shuddering. Bathed in sweat, she stared at the ceiling for hours until it blurred.
By TE-PING CHEN  |  May 08, 2008
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Can RI back away from the war on drugs?

Deficits and prison crowding propel the search for a more effective approach
When Rhode island voters narrowly approved a measure last November to allow felons on probation to vote, it marked an important step away from the kind of supposedly “tough on crime” policies that have long typified American criminal justice policy.
By IAN DONNIS  |  January 24, 2007

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