Massachusetts Laws
Massachusetts law about sentencing, probation, and parole
Proposed Bill -- Bill S.731 189th (Current): An Act protecting the rights of probationers in drug courts; By Mr. Brownsberger, a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 731) of William N. Brownsberger for legislation to protect the rights of probationers in drug courts
Massachusetts General Laws, Proceedings in Criminal Cases (Ch. 275–280) [look up in print in the library, or on Lexis, Westlaw, or Bloomberg. The Massachusetts website is not official].
General Resources
Bureau of Justice Assistance, Defining Drug Courts: The Key Components (1997).
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, America's Problem-Solving Courts: The Criminal Costs of Treatment and the Case for Reform (2009).
Recommendations of the Governor's Opioid Working Group (June 11, 2015) (Massachusetts).
Drug Court Review, National Drug Court Institute
Hon. William G. Meyer, Constitutional and other Legal Issues in Drug Court - A Bibliography (2015).
Trent Oram & Kara Glecker, An Analysis of the Constitutional Issues Implicated in Drug Courts, 42 Idaho L. Rev. 471 (2006).
Eric Jensen & Clayton Mosher, Adult Drug Courts: Emergence, Growth, Outcome Evaluations, and the Need for a Continuum of Care, 42 Idaho L. Rev. 443 (2006).
News Articles
Sarah Ellis, Drug Courts Impact Participants, Courts, and Communities, Boston Bar Journal (2015).
Judge Mary Hogan Sullivan, The Development and Implementation of Specialty Courts in Massachusetts (2015).
