And so occasionally I had to violate probation, send people to prison, do all the regular things that you got to do, regretfully, but the overall program was a success, which is, again, a part of why I want to go to Washington, to take what we learned with treatment courts here in Michigan and make it a model for the entire country. to be able to make sure that people who need treatment, who can benefit from that, get treated, but the ones who can't then are the ones that we send … (08:48–08:57)
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Asserts the intention to model national policy on Michigan's treatment courts.
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