[JediGirl]

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[Black Agnes]

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[Schmedlap]

"More than half of convicted drug offenders at state prisons have no history of violent crime or serious drug offenses..."

To what degree is this due to plea bargains, where the prosecutor convinces the lawyer of the accused to plead guilty to the lesser charge of the drug convinction, rather than endure the trial for the violent charges?

"...a disproportionate number of them come from poor, minority communities..."

What is the significance of this, beyond the notion that a disproportionate number of offenses are made by people from poor, minority communities?

[Texasforever]

Damn shame that so many innocent productive citizens were plucked from the bosom of a society that is blind to their contribution to family, community and nation. What a travesty.

[Schmedlap]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/rlc/738016/posts

[Schmedlap]

"Unintended Effect Of War On Drugs Found In Study"

Are we to assume that imprisoning people found guilty on rug charges is an "unintended effect" of the War on Drugs?

[KingKongCobra]

"More than half of convicted drug offenders...have no history of...serious drug offenses."

Ummmm??? Were they were convicted of jay-walking and reclassified as drug offenders? That's as far as I could stand to read. Another Jesse Jackson advocacy group.

[Kevin Curry]

Arch-socialist George Soros's vision of a drug abuser-coddling nanny government gets "statistical" support in the arch-liberal rag LA Times. Now watch the libertarians crawl out of the sewer and defend that vision.

Marx-Gramsci was their daddy, and they want to do their daddy proud.

[Doctor Stochastic]

One might inquire (or enquire for the poster, now) if this is an untended effect.