Our View: Drug, DUI court will help Hill County

Local teams are working toward the creation of drug and DUI courts that will put some offenders under strict supervision with programs that can help them overcome addictions.

If the teams are successful, and they insist they will be, many drunken driver and drug possession offenders may find themselves in programs that are more effective and less costly than traditional forms of punishment.

There has been an increase in recent years of people charged with drunken driving in Montana. That, we suspect, is because police have been more vigilant in apprehending people who endanger others by dri...