Success of Missouri's drug courts leads some to consider similar program for domestic violence offenders

Monday, March 7, 2011

It takes a committed team of probation officers, counselors and judges to make drug treatment court work in Missouri's circuit courts, but it's an approach the state's Supreme Court Chief Justice, William Ray Price Jr., has deemed successful.

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