Brown Sentences Range From Months to Years

Brown sentences range from months to years

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Under her new sentence, Fultz will also have to successfully complete the Brown County Sheriff's Office drug treatment program. In unrelated cases, Daniel Poe was sentenced to 24 months in prison for the grand theft when the property is a firearm or …
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Enlightened justice on drug sentencing: Editorial

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The big missing piece is investment in drug treatment programs, where a shortage of spots remains a crisis, especially as heroin use has exploded in the suburbs. It's good that we will no longer jail sick people. Now we must find the political will and …
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Smarter Drug Stance Should Reverse Destructive, Expensive Prison Boom

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The problem, all too often, was that these laws swept up small fish for long sentences — addicts who would have been better served by treatment programs — or kept judges from considering extenuating circumstances. We hire judges to use their judgment …
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Addiction, poverty go 'hand in hand'

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Lewis struggled with drug addiction and poverty for years before recently participating in an intensive yearlong rehabilitation program at the rescue mission. Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:22 am. Addiction, poverty go 'hand in hand' By CRISTINA …
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