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WV Legislative Interims: Drug Court and Home Confinement reviewed

By Matt Young, West Virginia Press Association

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Presentations regarding Drug Court and Home Confinement were among the Business before the West Virginia Legislature’s Oversight Committee on Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority during the final day of May Interim Sessions on Tuesday. 

First to present was the honorable Gregory Howard, judge of West Virginia’s Sixth Circuit Court, who spoke about the state’s Adult Drug Court program. 

Howard began his presentation by telling…