litation of DUI chronic offenders, and even then,
             it is less likely to involve jail terms than to involve relatively
             difficult to control participation in rehabilitation programs and
             abstention from driving; however, short of chaining a person to the house,
             it is difficult to ensure that a person ordered not to drive actually does
             not drive. If the person's car has been impounded, that does not
             necessarily keep him or her from borrowing a car, or even stealing one.
             Short of draconian measures (in some Arab nations, they cut off the hands
             of thieves, so would blinding drunk drivers be similar'), what can be done'
             Is the idea of a therapeutic court' likely to be the solution to chronic
             DUI' Or simply harsher and harsher sentences, with increasingly close
             oversight by probation officers' A cursory examination of the academic
             research conducted regarding those issues reveals that there has not been
             much. The popular media reports frequently, however, on instances in which
             a state or other jurisdictional entity has refused to grapple with the
             problems in any substantive way. A look at just a few of those may be
             helpful in pointing to some workable conclusion regarding how to deal with
             the problem of chronic DUI offenders.
             Ways to handle the problem of repeat DUI offenders
             In 1999, the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado, reported on a
             bill before the state's House Judiciary Committee that would ensure that
             "persistent drunken drivers would face a mandatory yearlong license
             suspension, at least 10 days in jail and other restrictionsâ€" (Luzadder
             1999). The sponsor of the bill noted that it was aimed at repeat
             offenders, "alcoholics who deny they have a drinking problem" (Luzadder
             1999). In addition, those convicted of alcohol-related motoring offenses
             twice within five years would be required to have an ignition interlock
             device on their car after finishing a ...