Mississippi Drug Courts

The Drug Court is a special court given the responsibility to handle cases involving drug-using offenders through comprehensive supervision, drug testing, treatment services and immediate sanctions and incentives.

Drug court participants undergo long-term treatment and counseling, sanctions, incentives, and frequent court appearances. Successful completion of the treatment program results in dismissal of the charges, reduced or set aside sentences, lesser penalties, or a combination of these. Most importantly, graduating participants gain the necessary tools to rebuild their lives. Because the problem of drugs and crime is much too broad for any single agency to tackle alone, drug courts rely upon the daily communication and cooperation of judges, court personnel, probation, and treatment providers.

Judges

The following judges also serve as drug court judges.

Kevin Adams Margaret Alfonso Gwen Broom Thomas H. Broome Margaret Carey-McCray Robert Chamberlin M. James Chaney, Jr. Henry Clay Vernon Cotten Allen Couch Lisa Dodson Dale Harkey Prentiss Harrell

Robert Helfrich Ashley Hines Lee Howard Andrew Howorth John N. Hudson Vernita Johnson Winston Kidd Kathy King Jackson Robert Krebs Jannie Lewis Michael W. McPhail Dexter C. Nettle, Jr. Isadore Patrick

Jim Pounds John Price Betty Sanders Lillie Sanders Sharon W. Sigalas William Skinner Albert B. Smith David Strong Frank Sutton Michael Taylor (Mississippi) Rickey W. Thompson Veldore Young

See also

• Courts in Mississippi

External links

• State of Mississippi Judiciary, "What are Drug Courts?"
• State of Mississippi Judiciary, "Mississippi drug court judges"

Footnotes

Mississippi courts

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Federal courts:

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Northern District of Mississippi, Southern District of Mississippi • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Northern District of Mississippi, Southern District of Mississippi

State courts:

Mississippi Supreme Court • Mississippi Court of Appeals • Mississippi circuit courts • Mississippi Chancery Court • Mississippi county courts • Mississippi justice courts • Mississippi youth courts • Mississippi Municipal Courts

State resources:

Courts in Mississippi • Mississippi judicial elections • Judicial selection in Mississippi