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Tele-Press Conference: NY Rockefeller Drug Laws



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2007/08/28 - 11:00am

New York State Commission on Sentencing Reform is debating overhauling the Rockefeller Drug Laws this week. Dozens of advocacy and community groups have united to reject half-steps and are demanding real reform.

Please join leading advocates and family members at this tele-press conference to release a coalition statement to the Commission. The press release is at http://stopthedrugwar.org/in_the_trenches/2007/aug/27/press_release_tues...

Call in information: 800-311-9404; Passcode: 740815

Some of the participants include: Cheri O’Donoghue, Prison Family Community Forum member and mother of a young man locked up for 7–21 years on a first-time, B-felony offense.

Anita Marton, Legal Director, Legal Action Center

Tony Papa, Communications Specialist, Drug Policy Alliance; author; and formerly incarcerated under the Rockefeller Drug Laws

Donna Lieberman, Executive Director, New York Civil Liberties Union

Howard Josepher, Executive Director, Exponents Treatment Program

Call in information: 800-311-9404; Passcode: 740815
New York, NY
United States
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