Save My Son: A Mother and a Sheriff Unite to Reclaim the Lives of Addicted Offenders
Save My Son: A Mother and a Sheriff Unite to Reclaim the Lives of Addicted Offenders
A mother who has lost her son behind bars and a county sheriff team up for this expos tracing most crimes in this country to substance abuse. Aside from testimony from law-enforcement officials, the authors weave in personal accounts of inmates to illuminate the problem and make a case for mandatory treatment programs. From the Publisher The U.S. imprisons a higher percentage of its citizens than any country in the world save South Africa, and the vast majority are nonviolent substance abusers who can be rehabilitated. Save My Son is first a policy book about this enormous problem of drug and alcohol addiction as it is manifested in the U.S. criminal justice system. Authors Maralys Wills and Mike Carona have created a thoroughly researched, up-to-date expose of how most crimes in this country are either the direct or indirect result of the criminal’s drug or alcohol abuse. They further reveal how the current correctional trend toward longer sentences, fewer prison programs, and very limited access to drug/alcohol treatment guarantees continuation of the massive recidivism rates we currently experience. In addition to the testimony of corrections officials, judges, and law enforcement professionals from across the nation, Wills and Carona weave in the thread of real-life testimony from inmates (and their families) whose lives have been devastated by drugs and alcohol and who desperately need help learning how to become and stay sober in order to have any hope of avoiding a return to life behind bars. Save My Son is not, however, merely a diagnostic book; it is also prescriptive, outlining Sheriff Carona’s vision of locked-down mandatory drug and alcohol treatment and job training facilities for nonviolent drug offenders designed to reduce recidivism and reverse the national trends of imprisoning massive numbers of addicts. From Publishers Weekly Wills begins this treatise on drug treatment in America by describi
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