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people with mental health or substance abuse s that a contradiction? more people are getting drug treatment in new jersey than before, with video 21 drug courts in all counties. that started before you were governor? excuse me, there were three drug courts in new jersey when i started now there are 21. it is started at the level of three. i changed the law to expand it to have drug courts in every county. second, i don t want this to be poorly a government solution by putting more money into it we have taken money out of the corrections budget and put it into treatment budget to allow the right sector to come in and provide this treatment. i don t want to more government facilities or make the government bigger. the private sector will fill the void. but you say you do not want to do state drug treatment centers but if only 10 percent of the people can be accommodated what happens? thank you is more than were accommodated before. but it cannot be good?
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it seems to make logical sense. the trouble is, that over time, research has shown that for a lot of low risk offenders that s not the case. violent and career criminals for sure. they should go to prison, stay there for a long time. that what we have prisons for. a lot of lower level nonviolent offenders were swept up in this big net. so we are at the point where we have nearly one in 100 adult behind bars. one in 31 are on some form of community corrections super vision that is in prison, jail, probation or parole. one in eight state employees works in corrects and the corrections budget has been the fastest growing category of state spending behind only medicaid and so people are now saying, we ve got to take a look at this and prisons are a government spending program just like any other government spending program, need to be put to the cost benefit test, whether it is education, healthcare, taxpayers now in this economic situation more
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paroling violent criminals. the state is compiling a list that includes convicted killers, sex offenders, and drug dealers and bank robbers. the reported plan is to parole them early so the state can trim its corrections budget by 6% in 2010. jessica cooper is the oakland county, michigan prosecutor. you can sympathize with the state trying to cut costs wherever they can. right? absolutely. i understand that. and perhaps we might be able to cut the costs per prisoner as opposed to releasing people en masse. essentially that s what we are doing here. explain why they are not, for example, just releasing the nonviolent criminals or are they already doing that? tell me about the particular case that you are fighting to try to keep this guy behind bars. well, they are already releasing people and already released already been an accelerated release. and you have to back up and
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