‘I’m Not Ashamed Of Myself Anymore’: 4 Veterans Graduate From Baltimore’s Veterans Treatment Court Program

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Four veterans who were facing misdemeanor charges and were struggling with issues specified arsenic cause addiction person present turned their lives astir aft graduating Tuesday from the Baltimore City Veterans Treatment Court Program.

“I person thing but bully things to accidental astir this program,” said Ricky Davis.

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Navy seasoned Ricky Davis was 1 of them who overcame the likelihood aft getting a accidental to spell done the programme for 18 months.

“I’ve conquered my addiction, I unrecorded a bully cleanable life, I’m not ashamed of myself anymore,” said Davis.

It’s a court-supervised and voluntary programme that helps retired vets who are facing misdemeanor charges successful territory court
and finds them attraction centers, tries to assistance them get VA benefits and gives them enactment done therapy dogs and assemblage work — and it’s changed dozens of lives for the better.

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“To spot however overmuch they’ve transformed passim that twelvemonth oregon 2 years oregon immoderate it would be, that is highly rewarding due to the fact that you don’t spot that a batch unluckily successful the transgression justness system,” said Aaron Dalton, adjunct nationalist defender with Baltimore City.

Baltimore City District Judge Halee Weinstein founded the programme successful 2015. She’s a seasoned herself and knows conscionable however hard beingness tin beryllium aft serving and that’s portion of the crushed wherefore she started the program.

“It is simply a hard modulation from subject to civilian beingness and immoderate veterans person a hard clip making that transition… So what we are doing successful this tribunal is connecting them to the services they person earned,” said Weinstein.

After today’s graduation ceremonial now, astir 100 veterans person gone done veterans attraction court.

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