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MA: Letter published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette in favor of changing unfair school zone laws

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

School zone drug laws need to be reformed By Daily Hampshire Gazette Created 02/07/2011 To the editor: The headline "Proposal draws ire - Gov. Patrick wants to shrink drug-free zone near schools" should actually have read, "Gov. proposes an end to unfair school zone penalties." Not only would it more accurately reflect the reality of how school-zone sentencing has been used in some counties in the Commonwealth, it would also better capture the content of the story. As reported in the Boston Globe Jan. 28: "Gregory Massing, general counsel for the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, said 'more states are moving in the direction of changing mandatory sentencing laws. Massachusetts officials created the school zone in 1989 to help combat a crack cocaine epidemic...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 07, 2011 (boomark / email).