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Tatum O'Neal's Drug Bust Sentence: Appropriate or Not?

Anthony Papa | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Addiction Treatment, Tatum O'Neal Drugs, War on Drugs, Prison, Cocaine, Drug Sentencing, Tatum O'Neal Crack, Drugs, Politics News

Nonviolent drug offenders like Tatum O'Neal should be given an opportunity to receive treatment, not jail time. This would be a more effective solution for both the individual and the community.

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Onward and Ever Upward -- But Not in a Good Way

Jamie Fellner | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drug Sentencing, Human Rights, Drug War, Prison, Prison Remittance, Racism Prisons, Parole Laws, Prisons, Politics News

Why the never-ending prison growth? Three ill-considered policies: the war on drugs, draconian sentencing laws, and punitive parole practices.

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From Draconian Drug Laws to Life Without Parole -- Join the Movement Against Harsh Sentencing

Anthony Papa | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty, War on Drugs, Drug Sentencing, Mandatory Minimums, Politics News

Now is the time to question what it means for society to turn from state-sanctioned executions to punishments that impose what many prisoners describe as "in-house death sentences."

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Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards! Judges, Bail and Coercive Plea Bargains

David Feige | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home

Read More: District Attorney, Drug Sentencing, Judges, Brooklyn, Bail, Conspiracy, Drugs, War on Drugs, Prosecutors, Home News

Michael Brick's ambitious piece in today's New York Times about the wide ranging narcotics prosecutions in the housing projects of Brooklyn omitted ...

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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: How Judges Make You Do the Time Even If You Didn't Do the Crime

David Feige | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Drugs, Criminal Justice, Drug Sentencing, War on Drugs, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Acquitted Conduct, Politics News

Not only have many defendants been sentenced for stuff the jury acquitted them of, but yesterday the Supreme Court refused to do anything about it.

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Hillary, Bill and Obama on Crack

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sentencing, Crime, Crack, Drug Sentencing, Clinton Needle Exchange, Needle Exchange, Hillary Clinton, Drugs, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Politics News

While Bill Clinton is apologizing for not having done more to reduce the disparity in sentencing for crack and powder cocaine, his wife opposes even the most modest attempt to fix the problem.

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Who Among Us Isn't Enhancing Their Performance?

Tony Newman | Posted 12.21.2007 | Living

Read More: Drug Use, Just Say No, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Drug Sentencing, Marijuana, Incarcerated Black Youths, Cialis, Drug Free America, Viagra, Beer Commercials, Steroids in Baseball, War on Drugs, Adderall, Drug Charges, Xanax, Living News

While it is easy to point fingers at baseball players, let's slow down for a moment and take a look in the mirror. We may be surprised to see how much "performance enhancing" goes on all around us.

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Rescue Mission for Governor Spitzer

Anthony Papa | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: New York Governor, Drug Sentencing, War on Drugs, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Drug War, Eliot Spitzer, Politics News

For many of those who have fallen through the cracks of Rockefeller Drug Law reform, their only hope to regain their freedom is through the act of executive clemency.

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Clinton Campaign's "Drug Baiting" Shows She is on the Wrong Side of Both Wars

Tony Newman | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Racist, Bush Administration, Drug Sentencing, Minimum Sentences, Hillary Drugs, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Hillary Clinton, War on Drugs, Bush War on Drugs, Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Cocaine Use, Obama Marijuana, Politics News

In upcoming elections it is going to be "drug baiting" and support of inhumane and racist laws that will cost more votes than having tried marijuana when you were young.

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Let's Put the "Justice" Back in Our Juvenile Justice System

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Drug Sentencing, War on Drugs, Juvenile Dentention, Juvenile Crime, Children, Incarcerated Black Youths, Incarceration Rates, Shaquanda Cotton, America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Children's Defense Fund, Politics News

We can do better. Incarceration shouldn't be our society's first or primary response to a minority youth in trouble.

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Cocaine Sentencing Long Overdue

Byron Williams | Posted 11.25.2007 | Politics

Read More: Unfair Sentencing, Drug Sentencing, Cocaine Sentencing, Crack Cocaine, Cocaine, Politics News

More than 80 percent of the defendants prosecuted for a crack offense are African-American. Ironically, more than two-thirds of crack users are white or Hispanic.

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American Gangster, American Stereotype

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.07.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Racism, Drug War, New York Cops, Russell Crowe, Denzil Washington, Blacks Drugs Media, Racist Laws, Black Jail Sentencing, Drug Sentencing, Stereotypes, Black in Jail, American Gangster, War on Drugs, Entertainment News

The public scapegoat of blacks for America's drug problem during the past two decades has been relentless, and the at all costs hunting down by Richie (Crowe) of Lucas (Washington) in American Gangster is stark testimony to that relentlessness.

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Crack Sentencing On The Campaign Trail

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Drug Sentencing, 2008, Democrats, Crack Cocaine, Joe Biden, Breaking Political News, Presidential Race, Politics News

Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court took up two cases concerned with the nettlesome racial politics of the war on drugs. One of the cases, Kimbrough...

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Crack Sentencing: From 'What He Said' To 'What We Did'

Michael Roston | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Joe Biden, Drug Sentencing, Democrats, 2008, Crack Cocaine, Powder Cocaine, Supreme Court, Cocaine Sentencing, Crack Sentencing, Supreme Court 2007 Term, Politics News

While the question of racial disparities in cocaine sentences is hot in the courts, it isn't lighting up the presidential campaign trail in any serious way.

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