Apr 12, 2019

Finding alternative sentences for drug offenders

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Big banks are out with positive earnings reports. Jumia, Africa's answer to Amazon, begins trading on the NYSE. Plus, how prosecutors and judges are looking at alternative sentencing programs to avoid the consequences and costs of incarceration.

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Families bear the costs of alternative sentencing programs

by Kimberly Adams

Apr 12, 2019

Does alternative sentencing create a system of easily exploited free labor?

Judge John Kilgore presides over drug court at the Wise County Courthouse in Virginia.

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