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Newsbrief:
Man
Bites
Dog!
Arkansas
Bill
to
Lower
Meth
Sentences
Moves
Forward
2/4/05
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/373/arkansas.shtml
Across the land, lawmakers
are scurrying to pass laws to fight the "scourge" of methamphetamine, whether
by restricting the availability of legal over-the-counter medicines, creating
new offenses, or enacting harsher penalties for existing meth offenses.
In Arkansas, this week, legislators headed in a different direction.
A bill that would get some speed cooks out of prison faster passed the
General Assembly's Senate Judiciary committee Tuesday.
Under current Arkansas law,
people convicted of one of a specified list of especially heinous offenses
-- murder, rape, kidnapping, "causing a catastrophe," meth manufacture,
and possession of
paraphernalia with the intent
to manufacture meth -- are not eligible for parole until serving 70% of
their prison sentences. In reaction to the appearance of methamphetamine
labs in the state, legislators added manufacture of methamphetamine with
intent to distribute to that list. But SB 120, the bill that made
it through committee this week, would remove the 70% requirement for first-
or second-offense meth lab cooks if they were found in possession of less
than five grams of the stimulant.
Bill sponsor Senator Jack
Critcher (D-Grubbs) told the Associated Press he introduced the bill because
he did not want to add to the state's prison overcrowding problem and because
he wanted to separate the addicts from the dealers. People possessing
less than five grams of meth should be presumed to be in possession of
the drug for personal use, he said.
Click
here to read the bill online.
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