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| Lawmaker grills drug treatment chief |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/21/2009 |
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IDAHO - Budget writers grilled Idaho's top drug treatment official on her decision to cut some $400,000 from a program in eastern Idaho meant to keep addicted offenders out of prison as part of efforts to trim her 2009 budget. The 4-year, $6.1 million Corrections Treatment Program, which now treats 40 people, lets judges move offenders between jail, work release, halfway houses, transitional housing, outpatient treatment and release. Sen. Dean Cameron, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee's Republican co-chair, Wednesday suggested "there are other spots and personnel that could be reduced that would not affect those programs." Kathleen Allyn, the Department of Health and Welfare's Division of Behavioral Health chief, told Cameron the program had sufficient cash without the $400,000 to continue services, though not to expand as quickly as originally planned. |
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