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| Drug law reformers focus on savings |
| By Asbury Park Press |
| Published: 05/29/2008 |
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NEW JERSEY - New Jersey taxpayers could save millions if the state did not imprison nonviolent drug users, but backers of changing the state's mandatory-minimum drug sentences said Wednesday they have a long way to go. "It is time to stop the madness. It is time to stop the hemorrhaging of good, hard-earned taxpayer dollars," said Newark Mayor Cory Booker, at a Statehouse news conference. "We want judges to be judges," said Assemblyman Joseph Cryan, D-Union, as a new study was released by the Drug Policy Alliance showing New Jersey spends $331 million a year keeping nonviolent drug criminals behind bars. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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