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Drug Policy Alliance on Legal Aid Society Report Finding that 2004 and 2005 Rockefeller Drug Reforms a Huge Success

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sections of the press release from DPA. A link to the Legal Aid Society report is at the bottom of this email. January14,2009 New Legal Aid Society Report Finds that 2004 and 2005 Rockefeller Drug Law Reforms Huge Success: Tens of Millions of Dollars Saved with Low Levels of Recidivism by Individuals Released from Prison New York Prosecutors Lose Credibility as Report Counters Past and Current Misleading Claims New York? A new report released today by the Legal Aid Society of New York shows that the changes to the Rockefeller Drug Laws in ?04 and ?05 have been a huge success with tens of millions of dollars being saved and remarkably low levels of recidivism of people who have been re-sentenced and released from prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 14, 2010 (boomark / email).