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The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs is a cabinet-level agency in the Government of Pennsylvania. [1] The objective of this department is to manage and distribute state and federal funds used to oversee alcohol and drug prevention, intervention and treatment services. “The Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs mission is ...
In 2023, 59 people for every 100,000 Pennsylvania residents accidentally overdosed on drugs, up from 36 overdoses per 100,000 people in 2022. Erie County had the highest overdose rate in the state ...
The corrections department oversees nearly 38,000 incarcerated individuals across 24 prisons and employs more than 17,000 people in both the prison and parole systems.
Limiting the use of RHUs has proven to increase violence in prisons. On April 1, 2022, New York passed a law that severely limits, or in some cases eliminates, the ability to place inmates in RHUs ...
According to 2018-2020 statistics, over 2.2 million people in the U.S. are incarcerated in prison, jail and detention centers, with 1.3 million inmates in state prison, 631,000 held in local jails under county and municipal jurisdiction, 226,000 in federal prisons and jails, 50,165 in immigrant detention centers and 48,000 in juvenile facilities.
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Drug courts are used as an alternative to incarceration and aim to reduce the costs of repeatedly processing low‐level, non‐violent offenders through courts, jails, and prisons. [1] Drug courts are usually managed by a nonadversarial and multidisciplinary team including judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, community corrections, social ...
A settlement in federal court in Erie has ended the case of an inmate who was in solitary confinement for 15 straight years at the state prison at Albion and other state prisons. Pelzer ...