11.   It prohibits drug testing and also bars sending offenders to jail as soon as they violate probation for a drug offense.

12.   Montgomery County Judge Edie Connelly has sent teen offenders with moving violations to the program.

13.   Prisons were established, and offenders were sent there for their own good.

14.   Sending more offenders to prison is an effective way of preventing crime.

15.   The committee recommended that judges, not prosecutors, should have the discretion to send offenders there.

16.   The idea, according to Dix, was to send nonviolent offenders like Payne to state jails and reserve the prisons for inmates convicted of violent crimes.

17.   Offenders are sent to classes, made to direct traffic or fined.

18.   Offenders can be sent to the camps for up to a year to receive counseling and job training.

19.   Police have the right to send offenders to labor camps for up to three years without trial.

20.   Under the reforms, minor cases concerning drug possession would be redefined so that offenders could be sent for rehabilitation instead of to prison, explained Zurita.