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Prisons, Drugs in America: A Turning Point?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisons, Drugs in America: A Turning Point? Neal Peirce / Apr 02 2009 For Release Sunday, April 5, 2009 © 2009 Washington Post Writers Group An historic turning point in criminal justice and drug policy in America? The fourth week of March was arguably just that: On the way to Mexico City, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton became the first senior U.S. official to accept co-responsibility for the cartel-driven drug violence now ravaging Mexico. Clinton acknowledged that ?our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,? and that our three-decade long war on drugs has simply ?not worked.? In Albany, New York Gov. David Paterson and the Democratic legislative majority announced they?d reached agreement to roll back the punitive ?Rockefeller drug laws? of the 1970s, starting with then-Gov...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).