A friend got a DUI a few months ago and the prosecutor is offering him drug court. I asked him what drinking had to do with drugs and if he had drugs in his system, he said no, was just for drinking. Anyone heard of this?
Answer:
Drug Courts are treatment-based alternatives to prison, youth services facilities and detention centers, jails, and standard probation models. The criminal justice system works cooperatively with treatment and other systems to provide an offender with all the possible tools necessary to get into recovery, stay in recovery, and lead a productive, crime-free life. The drug court system takes action to help the person change their life in order to stop criminal activity instead of focusing only on punishment of the offender.
Drug courts can be used for a variety of case types and molded to fit the needs and acceptability of each community. The most metropolitan and the most rural areas of the state have drug court programs.
It may be less disruptive to his life to just take the other punishment. The only person I know to go thru it, gets pee tested almost daily-he has to go to AA meetings 3 times a week (even though his offense was for pot) He has to report to his case worker once a week, and to the judge every other week. They can come to his house at anytime to test him- his parents are filing a complaint about this because they came at 3a.m. woke everyone in the house up and after his dad answered the door, and told them to wait and he would get him, just walked into his dads house and started looking around. He has a 10p.m. curfew that they won't budge on even for work. He lost a $20 an hour job, not because of the pot(his boss smoked too) but because of all the mandatory meetings and curfews and crap! Just make sure he knows what he is getting into before he does it. There is the reward of it not being on his record when he is done though.
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