What is Wrong with American Prisons and Jails
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Drug and alcohol problems in the criminal justice system.
The American Medical Association's initiative to improve health care of inmates of American jails and prisons I includes a specific attempt to improve diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of inmates having drug and/or alcohol problems. * * The number of inmates with these problems is substantial. Some estimate that perhaps half or more of all prisoners in the jails and prisons of the United...
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