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| Delaware struggles with high prison costs, retention |
| By finalcall.com -Saeed Shabazz |
| Published: 09/06/2012 |
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Delaware, one of the first states to adopt mandatory minimum sentencing in the 1980s, is reeling from huge budget deficits and rethinking its policy of locking up non-violent drug offenders. According to budget documents, the state spends over $250 million a year to house 6,528 inmates. “Delaware’s stringent drug laws served as a national pilot program for the nation’s war on drugs, and of course the Black and Latino communities were disproportionately impacted,” said Student Min. Robert Muhammad of the Nation of Islam’s Mosque No. 35 in Wilmington, Delaware. Read More. |
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It is time to de-regulate drugs.