Public Intoxication: Sobering Centers as an Alternative to Incarceration, Houston, 2010–2017.
In 2010, the Houston police department admitted 20 508 publicly intoxicated individuals into its jail. To address jail overcrowding, the city created a jail diversion policy that allowed law enforcement to admit publicly intoxicated individuals into a new sobering center. By 2017, public intoxicatio...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 109; no. 4; pp. 597 - 600 |
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