04/17/2023
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"Half of the nation's prison population is clinically addicted to drugs and alcohol."
"I think any cuts in the wet side is really unacceptable because it is a time when we are really having to spend more."
"At a moment in our history when federal government must make judicious economic choices, and we understand that, why would we suddenly abandon the one thing that it shows is so unbelievably effective?"
"I am deeply concerned, as are the judges throughout the nation who are such huge believers in drug courts, that there is not direct funding for the Drug Court Discretionary Grant Program."