{"id":3112,"date":"2009-07-26T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T11:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=3112"},"modified":"2009-07-26T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T11:59:53","slug":"drug-courts-successful-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/07\/drug-courts-successful-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Courts Successful Over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000099; font-family: verdana;\"><br \/>\nA study of New York&#8217;s drug courts finds that the prison alternative is successful in reducing recidivism over an extended period of time,<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;New York State Adult Drug Court Evaluation: Policies Participants and Impacts&#8221; study found that six drug courts in the state had reduced post-arrest and post-program recidivism for at least a three-year period.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the study showed that recidivism rates either declined or remained stable for drug-court graduates during the one-year post-program period.<\/p>\n<p>The study further found that the drug courts exceeded the national standard for their one-year retention rate.<\/p>\n<p>The drug courts evaluated in the study are located in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Suffolk, Syracuse, and Rochester.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000099; font-family: verdana;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Source:\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #000099; font-style: italic; font-family: verdana;\">Alcoholism &amp; Drug Abuse Weekly reported Nov. 24. 2004<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of New York&#8217;s drug courts finds that the prison alternative is successful in reducing recidivism over an extended period of time, The &#8220;New York State Adult Drug Court Evaluation: Policies Participants and Impacts&#8221; study found that six drug courts in the state had reduced post-arrest and post-program recidivism for at least a three-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-sector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}