Celebrate Clark County Therapeutic Specialty Courts May 22
Posted May 21, 2014
Clark County Therapeutic Specialty Courts will celebrate National Drug Court Month, Mental Health Awareness Month and the 15th anniversary of Clark County’s Drug Court in a community ceremony on Thursday, May 22. Superior and District courts will host the 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. ceremony on the main stage at Esther Short Park, just south of Eighth St. and west of Columbia St. The public can hear personal stories of some of the court’s 1,070 graduates.
Judge James Rulli pioneered Clark County’s Adult Drug Court. Since its inception, “We have succeeded in reducing crime and drug abuse, reuniting children with their families, and saving the citizens millions of dollars,” he says.
Nationally, 75 percent of drug court graduates are not re-arrested. In the past four years in Clark County, Drug Court graduates saved taxpayers more than 72,000 jail bed nights, or approximately $7.2 million. Clark County maintains six therapeutic specialty courts. They are: Adult Felony Drug Court; Family Treatment Court; Juvenile Recovery Court; Substance Abuse Court; Mental Health Court; and Veterans Therapeutic Court.