courting sobriety

This fall, the Waukesha County supervisors face a choice:

• continue to put drunk drivers in a jail that is almost always filled to capacity, or

• pick up the cost of an alternative program designed to get drunk drivers out of jail and on the mend: the Alcohol Treatment Court.

The choice has supporters and skeptics.

This report takes an in-depth look at the Alcohol Treatment Court Program, and the costs of drinking and driving to offenders, to victims and to the taxpayers.