Thursday, May 12, 2016

RSN: Sentence 'Enhancement' for Drug Offenders Is a Tool of Community Destruction




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FOCUS: Michelle Alexander | Sentence 'Enhancement' for Drug Offenders Is a Tool of Community Destruction 
Professor Michelle Alexander. (photo: Brad Barket/Getty Images) 
Michelle Alexander, Los Angeles Times 
Alexander writes: "There is no evidence that enhanced sentences reduce drug availability or the number of people harmed by illicit drug use. After decades of the war on drugs, it is clear that purely punitive approaches to drug crime are counterproductive." 
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