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War Heroes Gone Bad Divided by Courts Favoring Prison or Healing |
By businessweek.com - Elliot Blair Smith |
Published: 11/02/2012 |
Heroes when they came home in 2009, Mike Jones and James Sosh dealt with difficult returns to civilian life through bleak hazes of drugs and alcohol. Both were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. Within a year of hanging up their uniforms, each faced felony charges, Jones accused of threatening to kill a friend, Sosh of selling prescription painkillers to feed his pill habit. Jones went into therapy and is engaged to be married. Sosh is in prison, getting divorced. Jones, 30, who’d been an Army Ranger, had the fortune to be arrested in Orange County, California, which has a treatment court for veterans that sentences them to counseling rather than cells. Sosh, 26, a former Indiana National Guardsman, was prosecuted in state superior court. Read More. |
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