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MA: Want to know the real reason the law-and-order set backs mandatory-minimum sentencing? They get their pockets lined by the 'prison-industrial complex.'

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Freedom watch: Jailhouse bloc Want to know the real reason the law-and-order set backs mandatory-minimum sentencing? They get their pockets lined by the 'prison-industrial complex.' By HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND KYLE SMEALLIE | December 3, 2008 With aromatic puffs of change, Bay State stoners rejoiced on Election Day. But even the haziest of revelers may have missed the full significance of Question 2, a statewide ballot initiative to decriminalize marijuana possession in small amounts. Not only will this bring more humane and responsible marijuana laws, it will also suppress ? however slightly ? an insidious, contemporary offshoot of what President Dwight Eisenhower famously referred to as the "military-industrial complex": the idea that if private industry and government joined in promoting ever-increasing defense spending, war as well as national bankruptcy were more likely...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 04, 2008 (boomark / email).