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New NYCLU report on Rockefeller drug laws

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this official press release, the New York Civil Liberties Union today released a new report on the impact of the state's Rockefeller Drug Laws. The report's title, "The Rockefeller Drug Laws: Unjust, Irrational, Ineffective," provides a pretty clear sense of some of the report's conclusions. The full report can be accessed at this link, and here is a snippet from the introduction: This report presents and marshals the empirical evidence that demonstrates New York's mandatory-minimum drug sentencing scheme has failed, utterly, to accomplish its stated objectives. It has not reduced the availability of drugs or deterred their use; it has not made us safer.... The Rockefeller Drug Laws are the Jim Crow laws of the 21st Century...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).