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OH: Prosecutors seek elimination of mandatory prison for some drug offenders

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Prosecutors seek elimination of mandatory prison for some drug offenders Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:08 AM By Alan Johnson THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Ohio's county prosecutors are recommending major changes to state drug laws, including the elimination of mandatory prison sentences for trafficking and possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs, except in the most serious cases. The prosecutors also want to reduce several other non-drug crimes to misdemeanors from felonies, including assaulting a school teacher, administrator or school bus operator without physical harm; injuring a police dog or horse; illegal use of food stamps; and unauthorized use of a cable television or telecommunication device. If approved, the changes would ratchet back some "tough-on-crime" laws enacted in the 1980s and 1990s...continue to full post

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