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High Times Advertisement Representative Pinched in Pot Sting
October 18th, 2010 | 
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Matthew Stang (left) preceded byKareem "Biggs" Burke and alleged ringleader "Manny" Perez
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The High Cost of Empty Prisons
New York:
Last Wednesday (07/10/09), changes to New York?s notorious Rockefeller drug laws went into effect, allowing judges to shorten the prison terms of some non-violent offenders; particularly those incarcerated for non-violent crimes such as cannabis posession. This measure will further reduce New York?s prison population, which has already declined in the past 10 years from about 71,600 in 1999 under Mayor Rudy Giuliani to about 59,300 today – The state?s crime rate also dropped substantially during that time.
Nevertheless, the state has been slow to close prisons; this is a multi-billion-dollar industry – opposition from the correction officers? union and politicians from the upstate areas where most of our correctional facilities are has been fierce.
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Tags: California, cannabis, Cannabis History, Cannabis News, cannabis prohibition, drugs, drugs policy, financial crisis, government, mandatory minimum, marijuana, medicinal, New York, NYC, prison, release, Rudy Giuliani, Sensi Seeds, Society and Cannabis |
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