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NY: Press Release from Gov. Paterson on Major Changes to Rockefeller Drug Laws!!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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(Scroll down for specific reforms.) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 27, 2009 GOVERNOR PATERSON AND LEGISLATIVE LEADERS ANNOUNCE THREE-WAY AGREEMENT TO REFORM NEW YORK STATE?S ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS Sweeping Reform Ends Harsh Sentences for Non-violent Addicts Focuses on Treatment Rather than Punishment to End the Cycle of Addiction Governor David A. Paterson, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A. Smith and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today announced a three-way agreement calling for sweeping reform of the State?s Rockefeller Drug Laws. The agreement eliminates the harsh sentences that the Rockefeller Drug Laws mandated by giving judges total authority to divert non-violent addicts to treatment and greatly expanding drug treatment programs. The agreement strikes a careful and appropriate balance to ensure that non-violent addicted offenders get the treatment they need while predatory kingpins get the punishment they deserve...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 28, 2009 (boomark / email).