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MA: Urban Penalty Do drug-free school zones unfairly target cities and people of color? And a response from Lois Ahrens

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Urban Penalty Do drug-free school zones unfairly target cities and people of color? Thursday, February 26, 2009 By Maureen Turner Valley Advocate (MA) In January of 1989, Gov. Mike Dukakis was fresh off a failed presidential bid, but he wasn't ready to give up on all his campaign pledges. That year, in his State of the Commonwealth address, Dukakis reiterated an ambitious vow made on the campaign trail: to rid Massachusetts' schools of drugs. At the center of Dukakis' campaign was a proposed read more

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).