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NY: ?Should We Be Sentencing for Dollars: Rethinking the Proposed Drug Tax?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

?Should We Be Sentencing for Dollars: Rethinking the Proposed Drug Tax? by Patricia Warth and Alan Rosenthal. Center for Community Alternatives www.communityalternatives.org The 2008-2009 New York Governor's budget proposes a tax on illegal drug activity that will be imposed on people convicted of drug-related crimes. The Governor estimates that this "Drug Tax" will add $13-$17 million per year to New York's general fund. While the Governor's desire to close New York's budget deficit is understandable, the proposed Drug Tax will not help to achieve this goal. Instead, it will adversely affect reintegration and public safety, producing financial and human costs that will dwarf any revenues the tax generates. http://www.communityalternatives...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).