California Public Defenders Association Responds to the Recentfarabee Study On Proposition 36 Participants

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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The California Public Defenders Association today released the following in response to the recent David Farabee study showing that during Proposition 36's first six months participants had a high re-arrest rate for drugs, but not for property crimes or violent crimes:

"Undoubtedly, a statewide initiative the size of (Proposition 36) will take several years to become established and operate as intended. Therefore, analysis based on early (results) cannot be assumed to reflect the eventual impact of this initiative. Indeed, Proposition 36 remains a work in progress," wrote David Farabee, the author of a study widely reported in California's newspapers, concerning re-arrest rates for a small sample of 688 drug offenders enrolled in Proposition 36 treatment programs in the first six months of the initiatives implementation.

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California Public Defenders Association Responds to the Recentfarabee Study On Proposition 36 Participants

During Proposition 36's first six months, up to Jan. 1, 2002, Farabee's study, sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), concluded that Proposition 36 clients "remained more likely to be rearrested for a drug crime" relative to non-...

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