Taxpayers Bear Heavy Bill for Incarcerating Prisoners

Published October 9, 2013

Taxpayers bear heavy bill for incarcerating prisoners

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

The fiscal pinch gets felt in locales like Buchanan County, with its jail's 224-bed capacity, and the state of Missouri, where 20 adult institutions house 31,000 prisoners on any given day. Missouri lawmakers … Maryville Treatment Center, with a …
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The Shame of Our Prisons: New Evidence

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

They also reveal new aspects of a variety of problems, including (1) the appalling (though, from state to state, dramatically uneven) prevalence of sexual misconduct by staff members in juvenile detention facilities; (2) the enormous and …
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When More Medicine Isn't Always Better: Penn Study Reveals High Costs of …

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

But despite its obvious advantages for patient comfort and convenience – and the associated cost savings – this so-called single-fraction treatment has yet to be adopted in routine practice. That's the finding of a new study from researchers in the …
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