More than 24,000 non-violent criminals since 2002, either voluntarily or mandatorily, have entered New Jersey's drug court program instead of being shipped off to jail.
Municipal courts all over New Jersey are increasingly getting swamped with large numbers of minor drug possession cases, and one assemblyman now sponsors legislation that would allow counties to establish their own, centralized drug courts.
Despite the heroin epidemic gripping the Garden State, juveniles are not currently eligible for New Jersey's drug court program, which offers supervised rehabilitation instead of jail time.
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A serial burglar admitted this week to having committed more than a dozen burglaries across 6 counties in 2011, right after being released from prison for having committed the same crimes.
And in admitting his crimes, the judge in the case sentences him, not to jail, which is what you would think…but to Drug Court; where he will be under supervised drug testing, court appearances and recovery serv