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	<title><![CDATA[Cruel and Unusual: 25 Years for Taking Own Pain Meds]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/cruel-and-unusual-25-year_b_35781.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>In a mind-boggling act of sadistic legal legal buck-passing (I can't bring myself to glorify it with the word "reasoning"), the Florida District Court of Appeals upheld a 25 year mandatory minimum sentence for a Florida man convicted of "drug trafficking" for possessing his own pain medication.</p>

<p>Richard <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/opinion/19tierney.html?ex=1279425600&amp;en=1fc27d268a3c5bc7&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss">Paey</a> is a wheelchair-bound father of three young children. He has no prior criminal record-- in fact, he's an Ivy League law school graduate. He has not one, but two extensively documented...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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