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Article: For DWI Offenders, an Alternative Road to Treatment; No-Nonsense Program Hailed as Model of Success Now Faces Enrollment Decline
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 29, 1993
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Five newcomers, some of them still shaky, hunched over lunchroom
tables, listening to a no-nonsense security guard fire off the rules
they would have to follow for the next four weeks.
"You have to go to class," Cpl. Richard Delauder told the men.
"Don't be late. Beepers and pagers? That's a no-no. Wear full shirts;
no tank tops. You'll be searched, patted down, go through the
Breathalyzer every time you come in. Lights out at 11 p.m."
The men entered the DWI Confinement Facility in Hyattsville, where
convicted drunk drivers in the Maryland suburbs are required to take
intensive treatment while serving time in a minimum security jail.
What's more, they must pay about $36 for each day of ...