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Intervention to create a strengthbased approach to where were providing rewards, also when someone is doing good and recognizing their progress, not just sanctioning them when in fact they relapse because relapse is a fact, and its part and parcel to addiction recovery. George, let me ask you, marty raisesed the point that the reason that we need felony possibilities with drug possession offenses is that we need an incentive for people to choose treatment when they are charged with a crime. Do you agree with them [ i dont. I understand where marty is coming from. I think we have to make sure w...

Moving pretty smoothly right now but thats not how it was today. Traffic is moving normally for a saturday night here at this bay bridge toll plaza. If you were traveling on any one of the bay areas bridges or freeways, you know how closing one bridge can affect traffic everywhere. This bridge was closed for repairs and this what drivers would have wished for. What drivers got instead was this. Traffic snarled and moving at a crawl on highway 101 at hospital curve them caltran sign shows an estimated 66 minutes to get to berkeley. They headed back to mow we were about pull over behind us and j...

Right now. As a Precaution Police evacuated 15 people from the building and several other buildings nearby. The red cross is on the scene. In the last hour police did let some people back into their homes on the opposite side of the street. Our other big story, the traffic mess around the bay area as drivers work around the san mateo bridge closure. Roads backed up for miles and drivers sitting in traffic for hours. Heres a live look at the bay bridge toll mass a. Plaza. Moving pretty smoothly right now but thats not how it was today. Traffic is moving normally for a saturday night here at thi...

We had for everything in 1980. Its not consistent with Global Standards and not consistent with our own history. Its costing a vast amount of money and i think what you see is for some of the d. A. s and others are beginning to say enough is enough. Were seeing prison populations beginning to decline but when it comes down to the question, who are the first people we should stop putting behind bars . Who is the people who really dont belong there . Its people whose only offense is possession of a substance to put in their own body, right . Thats the first group that needs to be let out. [appla...

What were doing is not even consistent with american history. I mean, we had 500,000 people behind bars in 1980 and now we have 2. 3 million, 2. 4 Million People behind bars and almost have 5,000 people behind bars just for a drug violation. There are as many people behind bars for a drug violation than we had for everything in 1980. Its not consistent with Global Standards and not consistent with our own history. Its costing a vast amount of money and i think what you see is for some of the d. A. s and others are beginning to say enough is enough. Were seeing prison populations beginning to d...