By Nathan Goldbaum | April 29, 2015 | Health, Justice
File under: Anita Alvarez, Chicago Reporter, incarceration
As the report A Just Chicago notes, as an alternative to incarceration “drug treatment in the community is twice as effective at curtailing drug use, keeps students from having a parent in prison, and, in Illinois, costs 63% less (Kane-Willis, 2009).” (see page...