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Criminal

Oct. 8, 2009

Drug Courts After 20 Years: What Next?

Criminal defense attorneys Gail Shifman and Vicki Young say it's time to decriminalize drugs and expand abuse therapy outside of the legal system.

CRIMINAL

By Gail Shifman and Vicki Young

This year marks the 20th anniversary of a criminal justice innovation that was supposed to help solve the drug problem in this country and reduce the mass incarceration of men and women whose substance abuse habits lead them toward criminal behavior and, more often than not, to prison.

In 1989, then-State's Attorney for Miami-Dade County, Florida (later U.S. Attorney General) Janet Reno designed a new a...

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