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Criminal

Jan. 25, 2012

Counties look to drug courts to help rehabilitate prisoners

California's unprecedented program that's begun releasing about 35,000 prison inmates into county custody has local law enforcement and probation officials weighing all their options for coping with the influx.


By Emily Green


Daily Journal Staff Writer


California's unprecedented program to release about 35,000 prison inmates into county custody has local law enforcement and probation officials weighing all of their options to cope with the influx.


High on the list may be the network of drug diversion programs, mental health courts and other so-called "collaborative courts," which have proliferated throughout the state in recent years to...

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