News (Media Awareness Project) - US CA: PUB LTE: Financing Drug Measure |
| Title: | US CA: PUB LTE: Financing Drug Measure |
| Published On: | 2000-11-19 |
| Source: | San Diego Union Tribune (CA) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-09-03 02:04:27 |
FINANCING DRUG MEASURE
Here is a practical method of paying for implementation of Proposition 36,
the drug measure:
We constantly read that it costs $50 to $150 per day to keep someone in
prison. So, why not take the $50 per day that the prison would have had to
spend and transfer it to the probation departments? The great incentive to
make 36 succeed would be that those departments would continue to receive
the $50 per day as long as the offender stays clean!
Tom Turner, San Diego
Here is a practical method of paying for implementation of Proposition 36,
the drug measure:
We constantly read that it costs $50 to $150 per day to keep someone in
prison. So, why not take the $50 per day that the prison would have had to
spend and transfer it to the probation departments? The great incentive to
make 36 succeed would be that those departments would continue to receive
the $50 per day as long as the offender stays clean!
Tom Turner, San Diego
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