The issue focused on whether drug treatment should be provided in state prisons. The bill would have allowed state inmates to receive treatment for mental illness and substance abuse.

If it had passed, it would have created a program that would have provided treatment for drug addiction in state prisons. The bill would have cost about $20 million a year.

But it never got a vote.

It was before the November election. The Republican party didn't want to give up on this issue. A study from the