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from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #463, 12/1/06

RSS feeds are the wave of the future -- and DRCNet now offers them! The latest Drug War Chronicle issue is now available using RSS at http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/feed online.

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Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/01/2006 - 11:50am

figure out in dollars how much it costs to have non violent drug offenders in jail and prison. use these figures in addition to the total number of people in jail for non violent drug offenses. people may not care about people but they do care about taxes that are put into jails and prisons.

also, can you tell me why a person convicted of a drug offense goes to a federal prison and not into state prison? different offenses or what.?
jerry dincin

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