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Media
Scan:
Dan
Forbes
and
Salon.com
on
the
New
Drug
Czar,
MotherJones.com
on
HEA,
Seventeen
Magazine,
Larry
King
4/20/01
Hot off the press -- Salon.com is now featuring
"Bush's New Drug Czar?" by Dan Forbes. Forbes brings us the bad news
that the new drug czar is likely to be John Walters, a throwback to the
bad old Bill Bennett days.
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/04/20/drug_czar/
MotherJones.com reports on the tightened
enforcement of the Higher Education Act drug provision and the resulting
escalation of numbers of students being denied federal financial assistance
for college because of it.
http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/higher_ed_update.html
Larry King Live last Tuesday 4/17 interviewed
mandatory minimum prisoner Chrissy Taylor and her uncle Bill Boman, a Families
Against Mandatory Minimums activist. Taylor was 19 years old when
convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for "conspiracy," and the
facts of her case would paint her as innocent to any reasonable observer.
She was almost granted clemency by President Clinton, but it fell through.
Visit http://www.freechrissy.org
to learn more about her case; go the "Guest Book" section of the site to
see what Larry King viewers had to say about it.
The May issue of Seventeen Magazine includes
"Drug War Casualties," focusing on mandatory minimum sentencing and New
York's Rockefeller Drug Laws.
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Issue #182, 4/20/01
Editorial: Going Out of Business Day | Bush Budgets $4.66 Billion for Federal Prisons as Federal Prisoner Count Passes 150,000 | Prisoner-on-Prisoner Rape: Human Rights Watch Report Accuses Authorities of "Deliberate Indifference" to Prison Rape Epidemic | DRCNet Interview: Tom Cahill, President of Stop Prisoner Rape | Thailand: Public Executions of Drug Traffickers Begin, US Troops to Train Thais, Regional Tensions Mount | Boxer to Introduce Bill to Double Federal Drug Treatment Funding | Oregon Police Pull Out the Stops to Save Asset Forfeiture Gravy Train | New "Change the Climate" Ad Campaigns Launched | Media Scan: Dan Forbes and Salon.com on the New Drug Czar, MotherJones.com on HEA, Seventeen Magazine, Larry King | The Reformer's Calendar | Job Listing: The Chai Project, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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