Explain and provide an example of the events that led to policy makers to search for alternative solutions to incarceration for drug offenders.
What will be an ideal response?
During the 1980s, the number of drug offenders locked up in state and federal prisons skyrocketed. In fact, the rate at which drug offenders were sent to prison went from 19 per 1,000 adult arrests for drug offenses in 1980 to 104 per 1,000 arrests in 1992 (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1995). The staggering costs of incarcerating increasing numbers of drug offenders, coupled with mounting evidence that imprisonment was not an effective approach to dealing with drug abuse and addiction, led policy makers to search for alternative solutions that would be cost-effective, politically palatable, and successful in reducing drug abuse and drug-related crime (see "California Voters Approve Proposition 47" on the next page for one example). This search for a more effective strategy led to the development of the drug treatment court.
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