Independent Fact-Checkers Report President Obama Kept Promise to Send Non-violent Drug Offenders to Rehab, Not Prison
Posted by on December 12, 2012 at 05:56 PM EDT
From the reporters at PolitiFact.com, a Tampa Bay Times project:
"President Barack Obama says he wants to treat the nation's drug problem as a public health issue as well as a law enforcement one. So he has said nonviolent drug offenders should be given a chance at rehabilitation over jail.
Along those lines, the administration has supported drug courts, which allow low-level drug offenders to have their charges dropped if they successfully complete a court-monitored treatment program. We rated Obama's promise to enhance drug courts as a Compromise, because while federal funding has increased and the number of drug courts has grown by about 400 during his term to more than 2,700, the system has not expanded into the federal courts system as Obama pledged."
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