My son is an addict. He got arrested for possession (Felony) even though the amount he had was only enough for personal use. He received 12 months probation and was allowed to be released for treatment. He waited 50 days in a felony cell with murderers before he was released to probation officer for transportation.

He spent 60+ days in treatment and is now 100% clean. His first weekend being on limited release from treatment, we got a phone call from his dad saying three police officers just showed up at his house looking for my son.

We went on line and looked up his case file and sure enough, they had a warrant issued for him for probation violation.

After paying an additional $500.00 for an attorney, we found out that the probation officer never told the court he had been transported to treatment and when he didn't show up for probation for 60 days, they issued a revocation warrant.

Even after proving he was in treatment the entire time and sending the prosecutor a letter from his counselor stating that he was an exemplary patient and had been actually mentoring others, the prosecutor refused to drop the warrant and my son still has to appear in court for a probation revocation hearing.

My son has never stolen from anyone, harmed anyone but himself and is no threat to society, but could end up serving 7 months for a mistake made by the probation officer.

Sorry, these people are jackbooted thugs.