Split sentencing: What's not to like, LA?
Under California's AB 109 public safety realignment, low-level felons do their time in county jail instead of state prison, and courts have the option to split their sentences between time behind bars and time under supervised release. An offender …
Read more on Los Angeles Times

Re-entry court: Sacramento's spin on realignment
Under realignment, California for the last 21/2 years has been shifting responsibility for the drug addicts and small-time thieves who used to crowd the state prisons to the 58 counties, giving local jurisdictions latitude in how to deal with the …
Read more on Modesto Bee

Recovered alcoholic launches Go Sober program in Longmont
Go Sober uses Gabapentin, which is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for alcohol treatment, to restore the brain's ability to produce dopamine naturally, said Weeman, who works at Longmont Integrative Family Practice. Gabapentin is used …
Read more on Longmont Daily Times-Call