Drug courts do work; a study finds recidivism is reduced; Los Angeles is model for the national

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Los Angeles's drug court began as an experimental program in 1994 and within 2 years was named by the Drug Court Clearinghouse and American University as a national model. The Los Angeles model calls for judges to prod defendants into sticking to the yearlong, privately-run 12-step treatment plans. Graduation leads to prosecutors' dropping the criminal charges, while flunking out sends defendants back to regular court for trial.In 1998, some 300 drug courts are operating with nearly 100,000 past and current participipants. The US Office of National Drug Control Policy would like to treble the number of courts by 2000.

California, Care and treatment, Management, Prevention, Drug addicts, Drug abusers, Recidivism, Drug courts

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Drug war's big showcase falls apart

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Dr Humberto Alvarez-Machain was kidnapped from Mexico to stand trial in the US for aiding in the torture-murder of US drug agent Enrique Camarena. The doctor was acquitted for want of hard evidence linking him to the murder and sent back home to Mexico at the end of 1992. The Mexican government made many objections after Dr Alvarez-Machain was kidnapped and the ACLU will represent him in a suit that the kidnapping violated US-Mexico extradition treaties.

Extradition

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Jury punishes Mrs. America in ex-hubby case; she must pay $690,000 got having bounty hunters kidnap and torture him

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Former Mrs. America Jill Scott-Chance must pay $690,000 for false imprisonment, abuse of process and infliction of mental distress for hiring two bounty hunters who kidnapped her ex-husband after he missed many child-support payments, denied him the morphine he was on for pain from war injuries, and drove him from his home in Arizona to California where he was temporarily jailed as a 'deadbeat dad.'

Bounty hunters, Scott-Chance, Jill

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