California Deals Major Blow To Drug-Sentencing Reform

Published October 23, 2013

California Deals Major Blow To Drug-Sentencing Reform

Filed under: Texas Drug Addiction

If convicted, instead of prison or jail, those individuals would have been sent to substance-abuse treatment centers, and sentenced to probation or ordered to perform community service. The measure, authored by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), passed …
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A Mineral Wells Woman Died from Doing Meth, Crawling into Her Freezer

Filed under: Texas Drug Addiction

I got clean, went back to school and became a substance abuse counselor, for 15 years I worked in one county jail and three state prisons across California, Arizona and Texas. Then I fell and started using again. This time meth was the biggy for me.
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Attorney quizzed about missing medical testimony

Filed under: Texas Drug Addiction

In May, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered an evidentiary hearing in Randall County to take testimony from Holberg's defense lawyers about claims they “threw” Holberg's trial and failed to mount a competent defense. Holberg was arrested …
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