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Results for alternatives to incarceration (illinois)
1 results foundAuthor: Braude, Lisa Title: No Entry: Improving Public Safety through Cost-Effective Alternatives to Incarceration in Illinois Summary: The United States has a rate of criminal justice involvement far higher than any in the world, with more than seven million individuals under some form of justice supervision at any given time. Illicit drug use has played a fundamental role in the population explosion within the American justice system. The three decade-long experiment of increasingly harsh penalties for drug crimes has proven ineffective at curbing either drug use or attendant criminal activity. In Illinois, both the numbers and the percentages of individuals imprisoned for non-violent, drug-related offenses have continued to rise. The consequences of this situation include enormous social and personal costs to communities— with a disproportionate impact on communities of color—as well as a significant fiscal burden to taxpayers. Illinois historically has offered progressive approaches to dealing with drug-involved offenders. However, the state has not maintained its commitment to provide treatment alternatives to incarceration for non-violent, drug-involved individuals, and therefore has been unable to mitigate the impact of drugs on our communities, and the burden that drug-related crime poses to our public systems. The fundamental problem is that we send non-violent, drug-involved offenders to prison when there are more effective and cost-effcient alternatives available. The Center for Health and Justice at TASC proposes a public policy strategy of No Entry, which is designed to reverse the flow of drug-involved individuals going into and through the criminal justice system. No Entry involves structured, clinical interventions at every phase of justice involvement to address offender drug use and related criminal behavior, promoting public safety and ensuring fiscal responsibility. Details: Chicago: Center for Health and Justice at TASC, 2007. 32p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 22, 2011 at: http://www.centerforhealthandjustice.org/IllinoisNoEntry_Final.pdf Year: 2007 Country: United States URL: http://www.centerforhealthandjustice.org/IllinoisNoEntry_Final.pdf Shelf Number: 120859 Keywords: Alternatives to Incarceration (Illinois)Imprisonment |