Most nonviolent drug offenders are being sent into treatment as a result of Proposition 36, which passed in 2000.

And he thinks trading them for nonviolent offenders is a good idea.

"For a nonviolent offender, I'm not sure prison does much good."

Many of these young nonviolent offenders are held in adult prisons for months or even years.

She said that if the nonviolent offenders had served out their terms, the system would have needed more beds.

This led him to introduce legislation to provide treatment and training for nonviolent drug offenders.

A better approach would be to find alternatives to jail for nonviolent offenders.

I wholeheartedly support programs that put nonviolent offenders to work.

In the same time period and estimated 37 million nonviolent drug offenders have been incarcerated.

The plan focuses on nonviolent offenders coming into the corrections system for the first time.