Ryan Leaf Fails Treatment, Sent to Prison After Threats

Published April 8, 2013

Ryan Leaf Fails Treatment, Sent to Prison after Threats – Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has been moved from a drug treatment center to the Montana State Prison for threatening a staff member and violating his tre…

Kitchen training guarantees inmates jobs

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Studies in the past decade have found their unemployment rate is as much as 23 percent higher than the population as a whole. Part-jail, part-treatment center, River City seemed a good test case for a jobs program for nonviolent offenders with drug …
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Questions haunt prisons chief slaying case

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He found a place to live. He didn't violate an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. He tested negative for drugs. He attended a drug treatment program. Then, on March 14, something went wrong. The "tamper alert" on his ankle monitor went off, according to parole …
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