Drug addicts must be treated as criminals

I am writing about the vicious drug crisis that continues in Bonner County.

There are several locals, under the age of 25, sitting in Bonner County jail for recurring drug offenses, one for violating felony probation for the second time and with a criminal record in both Bonner and Kootenai counties beginning in 2007.

With two felony drug convictions in 2011 and 2013), after a previous conviction, this person was sentenced to another “rider,” a period of time of confinement or treatment. After failing to maintain the program rules, was returned to treatment for another four months.

MELINDA PELLON

Sandpoint

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