Brinkman, Phil,
Day 4: The Lows After the Highs. Phil Brinkman. - Wisconsin State Journal, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 63, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Day 4: The Lows After the Highs, Jan. 20, 2005; pp. n.p..
"By most estimates, at least 70 percent of the men and women who enter Wisconsin prisons each year have a problem with drugs or alcohol. Various national surveys suggest at least two offenders in five were under the influence of drugs or alcohol when they committed their crimes. For certain crimes, such as murder and sexual assault, the percentage is even higher. Among all the factors that contribute to crime--bad parenting, poor choice in peers, inadequate schooling, lack of job skills--probably nothing guarantees a trip to prison more than the compulsive use of drugs or alcohol, say professionals who work with drug-addicted offenders. Probably nothing could do more to stem the tide than for the state to use its vast resources to help offenders break those habits, they add." (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL) This article examines the tendency among Wisconsin's released offenders with addictions to resume a life of drugs upon re-entering society, despite participating in the alcohol and drug treatment programs offered at the state's prisons.
1522-3256;
Criminal behavior
Drug abuse--Treatment
Drug abuse and crime
Ex-convicts--Supervision of
Wisconsin
AC1.S5
050
Day 4: The Lows After the Highs. Phil Brinkman. - Wisconsin State Journal, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 63, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: Day 4: The Lows After the Highs, Jan. 20, 2005; pp. n.p..
"By most estimates, at least 70 percent of the men and women who enter Wisconsin prisons each year have a problem with drugs or alcohol. Various national surveys suggest at least two offenders in five were under the influence of drugs or alcohol when they committed their crimes. For certain crimes, such as murder and sexual assault, the percentage is even higher. Among all the factors that contribute to crime--bad parenting, poor choice in peers, inadequate schooling, lack of job skills--probably nothing guarantees a trip to prison more than the compulsive use of drugs or alcohol, say professionals who work with drug-addicted offenders. Probably nothing could do more to stem the tide than for the state to use its vast resources to help offenders break those habits, they add." (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL) This article examines the tendency among Wisconsin's released offenders with addictions to resume a life of drugs upon re-entering society, despite participating in the alcohol and drug treatment programs offered at the state's prisons.
1522-3256;
Criminal behavior
Drug abuse--Treatment
Drug abuse and crime
Ex-convicts--Supervision of
Wisconsin
AC1.S5
050