mental illness like any courtroom you've ever seen in that the judge, prosecutor, defense attorney, probation, treatment professionals, everyone gets together and work as a team to actually try to help drug addicted offenders get lives back and get clean and sober. >> so this is for first-time, non-violent drug offenders, correct? i can say that slower, but that's who -- that's who it's for primarily, right? >> actually, it's for offenders who are really pretty seriously engaged in the criminal justice system. they may have been on probation many times and in and out of jail. the key is they are seriously addicted to drugs and nothing else is working. so this team, this drug court team fashions a sentence or a plea agreement that connects them to treatment services that truly helps get them their life back.

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