Panel Backs Easing of Drug-Free Zones

Panel Backs Easing Of Drug-Free Zones
HARTFORD — A commission examining the state's criminal justice policies recommended Thursday that lawmakers sharply curtail drug-free zones around schools. Connecticut and dozens of other states created the zones more than 25 years ago, in a …
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Stephen A. Crockett Jr.: A crack in 'affluenza' justice
President Barack Obama announced in late December that he will be commuting the sentences of eight crack-cocaine offenders who were given extremely lengthy prison terms basically for being black and possessing a drug whose users are incorrectly …
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Yoga, meditation bring peace to women in the Dane County Jail
Ranging in age from their early 20s to mid-30s, the women have found themselves sharing this time of their lives together for crimes stemming from cocaine and heroin use to fraud and forgery. Dressed in blue T-shirts and baggy pants – the jail uniform …
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