Drug court answered Oklahoma woman’s prayer

Drug court is a district court-supervised substance abuse treatment program. It is designed to give nonviolent, felony offenders an opportunity to return to the community as productive members of society instead of being imprisoned.

→53: Drug courts operating in Oklahoma.

→23.5 percent: Drug court graduates who are arrested again.

→ 54.3 percent: Released inmates, without drug court exposure, who are arrested again.

→$19,000: Annual per person estimated cost of state Corrections Department incarceration.

→ $5,000: Annual per person estimated cost of drug court.

SOURCE: Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, January and July figures.