Treatment or Incarceration?

Posted on July 28, 2004

This Justice Policy Center report, subtitled "National and State Findings on the Efficacy and Cost Savings of Drug Abuse Treatment vs. Imprisonment," looks at efforts to reform Maryland's justice system and data demonstrating that community-based treatment and prevention programs are more effective in getting offenders back on track, protecting public safety, and saving public dollars than putting addicts and nonviolent people in prison where they get no treatment.