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Drug court orders cheaper than prison

 The evaluation of the Scottish scheme suggests that the average cost of an 18-month Drug Court Order in Glasgow was £24,408, whereas the cost of an equivalent period in prison would be £46,008.

G McIvor et al, ‘The operation and effectiveness of the Scottish drug court pilots’, Scottish Executive Social Research, 2006.
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