New Jersey’s Drug Courts, Special Probation, & Proposal for Reform
April 2007 New Jersey's Drug Courts, Special Probation, & Proposal for Reform The New Jersey Commission to Review Criminal Sentencing sought to conduct a comprehensive and independent examination of the New Jersey Adult Drug Court Program (ADCP). The report encompasses a series of proposed statutory changes to New Jersey's Code of Criminal Justice in order to expand and improve operation of the ADCP. The New Jersey probation statue, enacted as part of the Comprehensive Drug Reform Act of 1986, diverts non-violent, drug-dependent offenders from state imprisonment to a five year period of intensive supervision. The ADCP . . .
