There's nothing easy about being gripped by a judge, having to meet the obligations to attend alcohol or drug addiction supervision, knowing that if you slip up, you are going to go to prison and you could serve 28 days, for example, in prison… This is not easy. It's actually quite tough. Some might call it tough love.
On the challenges of Intensive Supervision Courts.
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