Sunday Dialogue: How We Punish Crime

Sunday Dialogue: How We Punish Crime

Filed under: long term residential drug rehab

While postconviction punishment is an appropriate response to criminal misconduct, it should not take the form of long-term incarceration, which is often disproportionate to the crime and counterproductive to the rehabilitation of the offender. As a …
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Suit filed in death of former New Life Lodge patient

Filed under: long term residential drug rehab

Both died at local hospitals after treatment at the residential drug treatment center. After the deaths and a series of stories in The Tennessean, state officials ordered a shutdown of New Life in November 2011. After the center filed a corrective …
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'Superbug' now occurring in 42 states

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In a matter of days after the middle-aged patient arrived at the University of Virginia Medical Center, the stubborn bacteria in his blood had fought off even what doctors consider “drugs of last resort.” … It's important to know where CRE is …
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