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To: Poet who wrote (640)	12/8/2000 8:30:24 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 6089

OT/ Drug abuse and incarceration Interesting thread- a liberal view- may I ask your views of this article commuting drug offenders. Would this be under the umbrella and in the median of liberal thought. In other words is this a common liberal stance or more left leaning than 'normal'. Curious? Thanks crow - (I feel I tend to be moderate except in crimes where I feel laws should be enforced. We don't need more laws just enforcing the ones written.)(PS I dislike Gore, I felt Senator Kerry would of been heads taller but thats my opinion.) foxnews.com Clergy Ask Clinton to Commute Sentences of Nonviolent Drug Offenders Friday, December 8, 2000 By Leigh Strope WASHINGTON — More than 600 religious leaders are asking President Clinton to commute the sentences of low-level, nonviolent federal drug offenders during his final weeks in office. The letter asks Clinton to grant clemency to and release on supervised parole federal prisoners who have served at least five years for low-level, nonviolent drug offenses. "Scores of Americans are serving unconscionably long sentences for drug offenses — in some cases 20 years or more — which are grossly out of proportion to the nature and severity of their crimes," the letter said. "These unduly severe sentences violate human rights and waste scarce criminal justice resources." The U.S. prison population has increased from 600,000 inmates in 1990 to 1.89 million last year, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. An additional 135,800 people were held in juvenile, military, immigration and other facilities, including those in U.S. territories and commonwealths. Experts say longer sentences, particularly for drug offenders, have contributed to the growth in the federal system. The U.S. rate of incarceration is more than six times that of Canada and Australia and five times that of any European Union nation, according to The Sentencing Project, a private group that advocates alternatives to prison. ------------------------------------------------------

To: Poet who wrote (640)	12/8/2000 9:30:12 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

Glad you enjoyed it. Have a bushism. "...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas." ... Mezz -