Student’s Name: Professor’s Name: Course: Date: Drug Treatment as an Alternative to Prison Even though traditional proponents of incarceration for drug offenders cite character rehabilitation as the primary benefit, there is no evidence to justify the claims. From the past three decades, the population of inmates charged with drug-related offenses has significantly increased globally. According to the underlying imprisonment statistics, seventy-percent of drug offenders in the United States emerge from convicts of the last three years (Clark, Doran, and Farabee p. 223). The statistics affirm that the judicial system should make relevant referrals, especially for non-violent drug offenders. One alternative to prison for non-violent drug offenders would be treatment programs because they can help treat the underlying causes, in which
