Two Views on Reducing Sentences for Non-Violent Drug Offenders

Two Views On Reducing Sentences For Non-Violent Drug Offenders
The number of drug offenders in federal prison has swelled to almost 100,000, many of them under mandatory minimum sentences, which were created in the '80s to combat the crack cocaine epidemic. We're going … You'd have to look at their case history.
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Spoils of Babylon pokes fun at 1980s miniseries format
It goes to show how history intersects with the present, and real people's lives. Cities of the Underworld. Saturday, 7.30pm, Seven Two (Not SA) … It is, he says, in the midst of a crack cocaine epidemic. He visits favelas (slums), open-air drug …
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