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MA: New Report on Drug-Free Zone Inequities Provides Opportunity for 'Smart On Crime' Sentencing Reforms in Massachusetts

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sadly, this legislation failed to come to a vote in the legislative session that just end. HispanicBusiness.com New Report on Drug-Free Zone Inequities Provides Opportunity for 'Smart On Crime' Sentencing Reforms in Massachusetts BOSTON, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report shows that Massachusetts' drug-free zone laws fail to improve children's safety and are a driving force behind the increased incarceration of minorities and the poor. Authored by the Prison Policy Initiative, a Northampton-based nonpartisan think tank, "The Geography of Punishment" analyzed the impact of drug-free zone laws on urban and rural communities, using data from Hampden County. It found that drug-free zone laws do not accomplish their intended goal of improving children's safety and directly translate to greater rates of incarceration for black, Latino, urban and poor defendants because the zones blanket urban areas...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 02, 2008 (boomark / email).