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NY: Sentencing Commission Calls for Drug Law Reform and Critical Response from NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sentencing Commission Calls for Drug Law Reform February 3, 2009 Panel also recommends determinate sentencing, graduated sanctions for parole violators A bi-partisan panel that spent nearly two years studying New York State?s sentencing statutes today called for further reforms to the state?s drug laws and provided the Governor, Legislature and Judiciary with several different options for historic reform. The Commission on Sentencing Reform agreed on five major principles of drug law reform: * Community-based drug treatment, especially when required in a criminal justice setting where the offender faces clearly defined sanctions for program failure, works and should be an available option in every region of the state...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).