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"Real commander needed for the war on drugs"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this effective column in the Seattle Times by Neal Pierce.  Here are a few excerpts:Will America's ill-starred "war on drugs" and its expanding prison culture make it into the presidential campaign? Standard wisdom says "no way." We may have the world's highest rate of incarceration ? with only 5 percent of global population, 25 percent of prisoners worldwide.  We may be throwing hundreds of thousands of nonviolent drug offenders, many barely of age, behind bars ? one reason a stunning one out of every 100 Americans is now imprisoned.  We may have created a huge "prison-industrial complex" of prison builders, contractors and swollen criminal justice bureaucracies...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 08, 2008 (boomark / email).