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Kemba's
Nightmare,
Part
II
5/3/98
Last fall, DRCNet reported on the Free Kemba Smith rally on the steps of the US Capitol, featuring high school students from Dayton, Ohio, who had learned of the Kemba Smith case from the May, 1996 issue of Emerge magazine, Reps. Bobby Scott (D-VA), John Conyers (D-MI), and Maxine Waters (D- CA), Rev. Jamal Bryant, Youth and College Director of the NAACP, representatives from Families Against Mandatory Minimums and others. Smith was sentences at age 24 to a 24-year mandatory minimum sentence for drugs sold by an abusive boyfriend who had been killed before prosecutors could try him (http://www.drcnet.org/rapid/1997/9-12-1.html#kemba). The May, 1997 issue of Emerge again features the Kemba Smith case, and the effort to free Kemba, reverse mandatory minimum sentencing, and educate youth on the dangers they could face at the hands of the criminal justice system. Check your local newsstand, or call (800) 888-0488. To learn more about the important work being done by Kemba's parents, Gus and Odessa Smith, visit the Kemba Smith Justice page at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/8899/. To learn more about mandatory minimums, visit Families Against Mandatory Minimums at http://www.famm.org.
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Issue #40, 5/3/98
DRCNet Special Report: Drug War Under Fire from Left, Right -- The Battle Begins | Members of Congressional Black Caucus Call for Drug Czar's Resignation over Syringe Exchange | Kemba's Nightmare, Part II | Marijuana Activist Arrested after Appearing on Frontline | Medical Marijuana in California | Julian Heicklen: Penn State Protest Update | Opiate Maintenance Conferences in New York | Editorial: Prohibition's Final Battle
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