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| Program aims to help keep addicted inmates clean after they're released |
| By buffalonews.com- Sandra Tan |
| Published: 06/14/2017 |
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David Seay has been alive for 57 years, but he’s lived through more arrests than birthdays. He spent a recent Sunday night lying on a blue mattress in the Erie County Holding Center's detoxification unit, covered in night sweats. Alcohol and an illicit mix of prescription pills contributed to his latest stint in jail for felony assault and criminal mischief, he says. He approaches a bolted-down table and glances across his jailhouse digs with bleary brown eyes. A thin, angry cut, courtesy of his wife, mars his weathered, left cheek. “I’m happy to be clean again,” he says. Chances are good he won’t stay that way. Thousands of inmates like him each year stay clean behind bars, but the county correctional system doesn't link them to any addiction treatment once they are released from the downtown Holding Center or the Erie County Correctional Facility in Alden. Read More. |
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