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35 Years of Rockefeller Drug Laws, and Hope There Won?t Be 36

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

May 13, 2008 NYC 35 Years of Rockefeller Drug Laws, and Hope There Won?t Be 36 By CLYDE HABERMAN NY Times New York governors come and go (some more swiftly than others). State lawmakers tend to hang around longer, but most of them eventually move on as well. For true endurance, the statutes known as the Rockefeller-era drug laws are hard to beat. The same may be said about attempts to scrap those laws, which came into being in 1973, so long ago that disco was just beginning to be hot. Nelson A. Rockefeller was governor then. Drug criminals had New York by the throat in one of the city?s periodic heart-of-darkness phases. Rockefeller wanted to show he could be tough as nails with dope dealers. The result was statutes that eternally bear his name in common idiom...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 17, 2008 (boomark / email).