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By Leona Vaughn
WNPA News Service 

More drug offenders would be sentenced to treatment instead of prison under proposed law

Bills in the house and senate allow for more incarcerated people to be eligible for Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative.

 
Series: WNPA | Story 16

Last updated 2/11/2020 at 11:04pm



Proposals moving through the Legislature would expand the eligibility of incarcerated people to receive treatment for substance abuse in lieu of or concurrently with prison sentences.

Senate Bill 6211 was heard by the Law and Justice Committee in...



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