What are drug offenders costing our citizens?
Look at the average cost to arrest, book (process into the system), temporarily detain, adjudicate (trial), further incarceration (jail or prison) combined with the medical treatment and rehabilitation offender receives while incarcerated, and finally cost related to placing that drug offender for probation. The estimate is as low as $16,000.00 to as high as $25,000.00 per year, per (each) offender which is higher than the average mean lower income for an American family. It is far less expensive and more cost advantageous to educate and prevent drug use and abuse to our taxpayers.
