Intensive Treatment Program Helps Wyoming Inmates Transition Back Into Society

Intensive Treatment Program helps Wyoming inmates transition back into society

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The Intensive Treatment Program requires the inmates to conduct deep introspection, to look at themselves honestly and to take stock of their lives to trace the behavior patterns that led to prison. They have to write papers on their first experience …
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Voice of the People: Obama Sends Mixed Message On Marijuana

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Drug policy reformers reacted with cautious optimism on Thursday over the Justice Department's decision to allow Washington and Colorado to regulate recreational marijuana without facing a federal lawsuit. … A New Jersey man was recently sentenced to …
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Former Colfax man reaches plea deal in sexual assault case

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Some of the alleged crimes dated back to 1999. Instead of facing a jury in a six-day trial in Ladysmith in a little over a week, Fodness pleaded guilty to a single count of child enticement with the intent to give or sell drugs to a child under the age …
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Jail vs rehab for drug problems – People with drug or alcohol addiction problems are being sent to prison for non-violent crimes rather than rehabilitation centers where their problems would …