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Wall Street fuels mass incarceration and the criminalization of addiction. We see tough sentencing over treatment and rehabilitation. But, When heroin use hit the suburbs, everything changed. Nelini Stamp, Working Families Party & Stephen Lerners Op-Ed in todays Washington Post: We know exactly how drug use has been depicted and responded to when it was perceived chiefly as a problem in communities of color. The 1973 Rockefeller drug laws in New York mandated a minimum sentence of 15 years to life in jail for selling two ounces or possessing four ounces of heroin... Disparate drug enforcement and sentencing is just one part of a larger story about growing economic and racial inequality in the U.S. legal system. Check out the full story: washingtonpost/opinions/when-heroin-use-hit-the-suburbs-everything-changed/2014/05/16/187dcce2-d79e-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 00:59:11 +0000

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