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State Sobriety Program Credited with Reduction of Jail Populations
Published in Law and Health Weekly, August 16th, 2008
Unlike most of the United States that is experiencing severely overcrowded prisons and rising inmate populations, the State of South Dakota has actually seen a decline in its prison numbers for the second consecutive fiscal year. Over the last two years, the number of male inmates entering South Dakota prisons dropped by 14%, which is helping save both the state's budget and taxpayers millions of dollars annually.
One element that contributed to this change is South Dakota's 24/7 Sobriety Project, a program that targets felony DUI offenders and others who have committed alcohol-related crimes. Attorney General Larry Long introduced the program in January 2005 as a pilot...
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