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LAC Releases New Drug Law Reform Costs Savings Report (Very good study whether or not you are in NY)

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

? LAC Releases New Drug Law Reform Costs Savings Report (Very good study whether or not you are in NY) The Legal Action Center has just completed a new study, Drug Law Reform 2008 - Dramatic Costs Savings For New York State, which finds that New York would save over a quarter billion dollars a year by reforming the Rockefeller-Era Drug Laws. When drug law reform is fully operational, it is estimated that New York would save $267,660,000 a year. Even in the first year, estimates show that New York would realize tens of millions of dollars in savings. The study calculated the cost savings that would accrue to New York State by diverting addicted individuals charged with second, non-violent, non-sex felony offenses from prison to community-based treatment, as they comprise the vast majority of individuals who are mandated into prison under current law...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).