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: The Real Cost of Prisons WeblogAnti-Drug Task Force Funding Leads to Police Corruption and Destruction of Lives
By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)
Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).
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Continuing his reporting on the drug forfeiture investigation in Delaware County, Rick Yencer of the Muncie Star-Press writes today: The Muncie-Delaware County Drug Task Force was ordered Wednesday to return $25,212 seized without a court order and spent in violation...
California may follow Texas shutting down drug task forces
With large cuts proposed at the federal level and a state spending crisis, in California a state Senate subcommittee last week approved a plan to eliminate funding for that state's system of regional narcotics task forces...
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Drug Enforcer: Federal Cuts Could Set Meth Fight Back 20 Years
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 4, 2008.
"Midwest law enforcers are worried that methamphetamine problems are about to surge again at a time of extreme federal slashes in police funding, reports the Chicago Tribune...
Govs task force gets 2 out of 3 right
After yesterday’s press release by the Guv, apparently outlining her own proposals for criminal justice reform, the task force she appointed to make recommendations released theirs...
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