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New report urging drug sentencing reform in Massachusetts

By Douglas A. Berman

This press release made available at FAMM provides this report on a new state bar report urging drug sentencing reforms in Massachusetts: Massachusetts must enact meaningful drug reform for non-violent offenders, focusing on education and treatment instead of incarceration and punishment, according to a report of the Massachusetts Bar Association?s Drug Policy Task Force.  Mandatory minimum sentencing reform and diversion to treatment, alone, could save the state more than $25 million a year. ?This comprehensive report has identified many ways in which our drug policy in Massachusetts needs repair,? said David W. White Jr., MBA past president and chair of the MBA Drug Policy Task Force.  ?These are problems that we cannot afford to ignore...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 21, 2009 (boomark / email).