she says drug courts cut the reoffense rate from 69 to 22%, >> i think if you are assessing offenders based on what their risks are and what their needs are, and addressing them, then we will be more successful at reducing the crime rate. if we use a one size fits all to everybody, then you're not going to see results. >> it's a lot cheaper, roughly 8 to $12,000 for someone going through drug court, you're looking at 30 to $40,000 if they go to jail. jennifer: counties will come up with 50% of the cost, the state would then match it. tom: coming up next, a manchester man stabbed in the back, his own mother charged with assault. what the two were fighting over that police say led to the attack. jennifer: plus all this damage caused by vandals in beford, the target, the little league complex in town. mike: a frosty cold night ahead as temperatures drop below freezing in many spots. tom: in court today we learned new details about a franklin father accused of loving his 1-month-old daughter hostage. thomas carroll faces 14 charges after investigators say he locked himself inside his bow

>> there is sometimes reoffense. and i try to make it very clear at the beginning, if you reoffend, this gift of diversion may disappear. >> reporter: but for the kids who comply and statistically that's most of them, the rewards are great. so david could you have imagined two or three years down the road where you are now? >> i never saw it coming. i thought i was -- i was just stuck. like i was just stuck in that position of oh, what's the next part of my life that i'm going to mess up or something like, i'm going to hurt my mom next or my brother or somebody else in my family besides myself. >> reporter: give me the two versions of david. david without this program where does he end up, david with this program where does he end up? >> if i didn't have this program right now i would be in jail, and with this program, it's positive, up hill from here. >> reporter: you're fundamentally changing the trajectory of these kids' lives. >> i hope so. i hope so. ultimately it is their decision to go with me or not. hopefull