In the Big House
Get out of jail card
DTC's
Options
100
On average, this costs about $60 per day.
What is the average cost for incarceration in the prison system?
100
This costs less than $8 a day for community supervision.
What is the cost of rehab?
100
These courts are funded by state and federal grants.
What is Drug Treatment Courts
100
Probation, parole, and supervised release are all forms of this.
What is Community Supervision?
200
This is an offenders habitual relapse into crime.
What is recidivism?
200
This is the strategy of applying proper treatment so an offender will present no further threat to society.
What is rehabilitation?
200
This is the foundation of a drug offender's problem and a key reason why DTCs were established.
What is drug addiction?
200
This place helps an individual test their ability to make choices and mistakes and to face consequences in a protected environment.
What is a half-way house?
300
This option is supported by legislation because it is highly profitable.
What is incarceration?
300
Rehabilitation is not necessarily profitable for all generations. This generation has a longer history of drug and alcohol abuse and are less likely to benefit from rehab.
What is the baby boomer generation?
300
This is the act of pronouncing judgment based upon evidence presented, and is non-adversarial in nature within DTCs.
What is adjudication?
300
Community supervision may provide this in addition to substance abuse treatment and mental health treatment.
What is Educational or vocational training?
400
From 2005 to 2007 this statistic declined by 11 percent.
What is the Texas recidivism rate?
400
This is a more current form of rehabilitation for non-violent offenders that encompasses judges, prosecutors, defense council, treatment provider, and corrections personnel with the defendant. It provides assistance for drug abuse criminals instead of imprisonment.
What is Drug Treatment Courts or DTCs.
400
Drug treatment courts provide 5 essential elements dealing with drug offenders. Non-adversarial adjudication process, a judge with a hands-on approach, clearly defined rules of treatment, and the concept of DTC teamwork and this make up the five essential elements.
What is Intervention
400
Based on studies, this cost the nation over $600 billion annually.
What is Substance Abuse?
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