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MA: School Zone Laws Fail to Keep Children Safe from Drug Sales and Disproportionately Send More African Americans and Latinos to Prison & Jail

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Go to the full report and excellent graph: http://www.prisonpolicy.org/toofar/report.html Report: Mass. sentencing laws not doing the job Feb. 19, 2009 Bay State Banner St. John Barned-Smith Calls for reform of mandatory minimum sentencing laws received some added support recently from a report by a Massachusetts incarceration think tank that claims current policies are failing to keep children safe from the dangers of drugs. At issue are so-called ?sentencing enhancement zones,? according to the report unveiled last month by the Northampton-based Prison Policy Initiative. The zones were originally designed ?to serve as a geographic deterrent in order to protect children from drug activity [by] identifying specific areas where children gather and driving drug offenders away from them with the threat of an enhanced penalty,? according to the report...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).