Elaine Bartlett was a 26-year-old mother of four living in East Harlem when she was sentenced to 20-to-life for selling four ounces of cocaine to an informant. It was her first offense; the same ...
On May 8, 1973, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller signed into law what he called “the toughest antidrug program in the nation” and then congratulated himself and the legislators who stood fast “against this ...
The details of how the latest Rockefeller reforms will affect the state’s 175 drug courts are still up in the air, but what happens every day in Brooklyn Treatment Court might be the model. People ...
AFTER YEARS of dragging their feet, New York lawmakers agreed this month on legislation that will change the state's draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Victims of the drug laws and their families have ...
The streets of our state are demonstrably safer today than they were as recently as five years ago. The dramatic reduction in violent crime in New York is, in large measure, due to the vigorous ...
The harsh set of criminal penalties known as the Rockefeller Drug Laws, enacted in 1973, have had unintended results and should be reformed. The first step in that process was taken with this week's ...
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