Wasn’t it a NATIONAL program? That article’s just a Boca Raton piece. Again, multiply by 1,000s of locations needing facilities, materials, food, salaries etc etc etc.
*ALL COSTS* GO TO THE BOTTOM-LINE EXPENSE FOR THE PROGRAM. ALL COSTS, PRIVATE AND/OR PUBLIC.
It was publicly hailed as a ‘resounding success’, IINM, but it wasn’t, on a strictly cost/per accounting basis. None of those touchy-feely programs ever are.
I’m glad some were turned from drugs-alcohol abuse, and that they didn’t go thru that hell-on-earth nightmare that many others did. But it wasn’t the universal panacea it was hyped to have been.