State and local courts also use the programs, as an alternative to jail.
But detainees and campaigners say Syria is simply the only alternative to jail for Syrian-Palestinian prisoners.
At the very least, no alternative to jail would get close to matching the £30,000 a year each prisoner costs.
He was told by Mr Justice Wilkie that there was no alternative but jail for such "prolonged bad driving involving deliberate disregard for the safety of others".
The motion adds that "heroin maintenance clinics" set up in Switzerland and the Netherlands as an alternative to jail for addicts have had great success in reducing crime and the prevalence of hard drugs.
New arrivals now have an interview, and evidence of any brain disorder is passed to the public defender (a lawyer for those who cannot afford one), who is then able to plead for an alternative to jail.
Subject to the military draft and possible assignment to combat in Vietnam, he enlisted in the United States Army Reserve as an alternative to jail or Canada, and wrote about that experience in "The Sunshine Soldiers" (Simon & Schuster, 1971), a journal of his eight weeks in basic combat training with the men of Charlie Company in Fort Bliss, Tex.
He doesn't go after belly laughs; his prey is the surprised yip of recognition, and he seldom misses: "His inner man was toying with a stroke as the alternative to jail"; "She was so much bigger than the bride I had first met in Lakewood that I couldn't keep from speculating on her expansion.
Richardson appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the arrest, Parenti said, and the former all-star guard agreed to enter the center at Bergen Pines Hospital in Paramus, N.J., as an alternative to jail.
Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 after admitting to a homosexual relationship and was forced to take female hormones as an alternative to jail.
It was begun by Judge Ferdinand in 1996 as an alternative to jail for non-violent drug offenders in Brooklyn.
