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"The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

March 27, 2009 "The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change? Odile Weissenborn Posted March 26, 2009 Huffington Post Our new president came in on a platform of change, and just a few months after his inauguration, we're seeing some exceptional things. The pristine fountains on the White House lawn were dyed green this year for St. Patrick's day. Big-shot executives are now giving back their bonus pay! New government is shaking things up--and not just on a federal level. In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled. With Democrats in charge of both arms of the NY State Legislature and in the governor's seat, reformers--joined by celebrities like Russell Simmons, P. Diddy, Susan Sarandon and Mariah Carey--have their big chance...continue to full post

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