Making our community a safer, healthier place.
“I want to put Drug Treatment Court to work for Allegan. Without a change in our court operations we will continue to spend time, energy, and our tax dollars, to incarcerate addicts; never addressing the revolving-door that drug and alcohol offenders move through in our criminal justice system.”
REDUCE RECIDIVISM
Drug Treatment Courts recognize addiction is a complex problem. They provide comprehensive therapeutic interventions, treatment, and other services to increase participants’ periods of abstinence and reduce the rate of relapse, re-arrest, and re-incarceration.
Drug treatment courts are specially designed to reduce recidivism and substance abuse among nonviolent substance-abusing offenders and to increase the offenders' likelihood of successful rehabilitation through early, continuous, and intense judicially-supervised treatment, mandatory drug testing, and use of sanctions.*
*Michigan Drug Treatment Courts
“When someone has committed a heinous assaultive act, or made crime a lifelong career, incarceration is necessary and I will sentence with a heavy hand. When someone has possessed or used illegal substances I want to focus our limited resources on fighting addiction to reunite families and reduce crime.”
