Narconon of Georgia was founded as an alternative to incarceration in 2001 with its first 20 persons coming directly from jail.
I worked with a community court Judge in a pilot to determine the effectiveness of rehab versus incarceration for those offenders who were addicts and had the opportunity to go directly into holding cells and even into a jail pod to interview qualified candidates for the pilot.
It was through this experience that I was thrust from the ranks of oblivious citizen to one in the know concerning the un-therapeutic and hostile milieu of jail. I saw young people locked up like animals. Whatever mistake they made with drugs seemed irreparable, now that they were caught up in the system. They had a record that would follow them with a loss of self respect that could ruin them for life. There was a TV perched in the furthest corner and difficult to see and a guard who would yell whenever someone laughed too loudly. How this set up was of any benefit to anyone inside jail or in society I will never know.
I really wished that I could take them all with me, but I could only take 20. I picked 20 guys, got them out of jail and took them to Narconon with me. They all completed the program. The pilot was successful and proved that treatment is a viable alternative to incarceration. Not only is it more effective and cheaper, it is more humane and leaves a person with dignity.
Society is better off.
Drug treatment works whether one is an offender of not.
Narconon is a viable solution. We have a 76% success rate. 877-413-3073
