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BOP Fails To Meet Drug Treatment Goals; Lack of Funding Blamed
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2010, page 45
According to the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) annual report to Congress on substance abuse treatment programs, the BOP will once again fail to provide residential drug treatment services to 100 percent of eligible prisoners.With the BOP’s population swelling beyond 205,000, the demand for drug treatment by federal prisoners only ...
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