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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Drug Policy Forum of California Release 121099 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Cal. Drug Prison Population Up from 0 in 1900 to 46,000 at End of
Century One in Eight Imprisoned for Simple Possession | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The century is ending with a record number of drug prisoners in California, according to the latest statistics from the Department of Corrections.As of June 1999, the state prison system held 45,874 drug offenders, a record 28.3% of the prison population. Of these, 19,743 a record 12.2% of all prisoners were being held for simple possession (not sales) of drugs that were entirely legal when the century began. The number of marijuana prisoners (1,903) is also near record levels, up 12% since the passage of California's medical marijuana initiative, Prop. 215, and nearly twenty times the level of twenty years ago. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Not included in these figures are prisoners held in county jails and
federal prisons. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
While the number of drug prisoners in California has exploded over
fivefold since 1986, and their proportion in the prison population has
doubled, illegal drug usage has remained more or less constant over the
same period. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"The figures show clearly that the war on drugs is bankrupt," comments
DPFCA spokesman Dale Gieringer. "California taxpayers are spending over
$1 billion per year to incarcerate people for inherently nonviolent
drug crimes, with no evident public benefits. When this century began,
drug crime was unknown.Opiates, cocaine and other drugs were legally
available over the counter in drug stores, yet addiction rates were no
higher than today." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The state's war on drugs began in 1907, when the legislature banned
sale of opiates and cocaine except on prescription.Since then, the
century has witnessed some 6 million drug arrests in California.Over 3
million Californians committed drug crimes this year, mainly
possession. A ballot initiative to eliminate prison sentences for
nonviolent drug possession offenders and substitute drug diversion
programs instead is being circulated by the Campaign for New Drug
Policies(310)3942952. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Release by Dale Gieringer, (510) 5401066. Dec 10, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy COMMENT: (1-2) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In an amazing confirmation of current official schizophrenia toward the human psyche, the NYT's editorial page clucked approvingly over McCzar's announcement that our prison-based drug war would be (somewhat) "medicalized," even as its front page published the US Surgeon General's report on the shameful neglect of mental illness. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(1) EDITORIAL: DRUG TREATMENT GETS A BOOST (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The beginning of an important shift in the nation's approach to combatting drug-related crime can be seen in the recent success of "drug courts" and other programs aimed at reducing prison costs by diverting nonviolent drug users into serious drug treatment programs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is clearly a promising approach to a serious national problem, and
General McCaffrey is right to promote it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(2) MENTAL DISORDERS COMMON, U.S. SAYS; MANY NOT TREATED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON -- One in every five Americans experiences a mental disorder in any given year, and half of all Americans have such disorders at some time in their lives, but most of them never seek treatment, the surgeon general of the United States says in a comprehensive new report. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Many people with mental disorders do not realize that effective treatments exist, or they fear discrimination because of the stigma attached to mental illness, the study found. And, it said, many people cannot afford treatment because they lack insurance that would cover it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (3-6) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Various pious ruminations over the Juarez killings called for greater
Mexican "cooperation" as the key to combatting "narcotrafficking;" none
more obtusely than the Augusta Chronicle. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Whatever the tone, none was able to explain just how to achieve the requisite Mexican cooperation in a setting where most of those wearing uniforms either can't be trusted or must fear for their own lives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The debacle in Juarez moved Bertram and Sharpe to condemn US policy
more forthrightly than in their 1996 book, "Drug War Politics;" but not
quite to the extent its historical record demands. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(3) EDITORIAL: MEXICO'S DRUG 'DENIAL' (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Even as FBI and Mexican anti-drug agents last week dug up hundreds of bodies buried in a mass grave on the ranch of a Mexican drug lord across the border from El Paso, there were rumblings of discontent among many Mexicans about U.S. meddling with their nation's sovereignty. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mexico, in fact, should learn from Colombia's tragic experience. For
years, it was too proud to ask for significant U.S. help to get rid of
Marxist narco terrorists who were taking over the countryside and
terrorizing the government. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Not until the Colombians were about to lose their sovereignty to the
Red drug cartels did they turn to the Americans. But even now it might
be too late for them. But it's not too late for Mexico. Without U.S.
help that country will continue to sink under a wave of drug-fueled
violence. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(4) U.S.-MEXICO BORDER COULD BECOME A GLOBAL MODEL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
DRUG trafficking, mass graves and border provocations are darkening
U.S.-Mexican relations on the very eve of a 21st century destined to
test whether the world's developed and developing countries can coexist
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If we're not careful, this disastrous drug policy, breeding suspicion
and violence, used to justify severe, Cold War-like security checks at
border cross points, could start to undercut prospects for the strong,
mutually supportive trade ties widened so dramatically and productively
in the last decade. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(5) MEXICO: SECRETS FROM THE GRAVE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Just 15 miles south of the U.S. border, officials are searching for the
bodies of victims killed during a vicious drug war | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The main break in the search for the disappeared reportedly came from a former Mexican police officer, who described the grave sites to the FBI. Worried that corruption inside the Mexican government would spoil the operation, U.S. officials persuaded their Mexican counterparts not to notify Juarez police and to tell federal authorities only at the last moment. That deal forced Mexican officials to answer accusations that the operation violated the country's sovereignty. "I'm not selling out my country," Attorney General Jorge Madrazo Cuellar told reporters. "I'm fighting vigorously against narcotraffickers." Agents at the Bell ranch were obviously worried that the cartel was watching: many of the Mexicans wore ski masks as they went about their work. Even American forensic experts taped newspapers over their car windows. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
They know better than anyone what can happen to enemies of the Juarez
cartel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(6) OPED: DRUG WAR MONEY BRINGS EVER MORE CORRUPTION (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON--Plata o plomo. Silver or lead. That is the choice drug
traffickers in Mexico have given their allies and enemies for years:
the bribe or the bullet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The repeated failure to break the cycle of drug-war corruption is no
accident. It is a product not of Mexico, but of our own drug-war
strategy. As ironic as it seems, the U.S. strategy ensures that the
very corruption we abhor will continue. The reason is that the drug
warriors are not simply up against a particular cartel or drug
lord--but an entire market system. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (7-8) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In an interview reported by a student daily, Mass. Rep. Barney Frank
voiced some telling criticism of US policy and the attitudes of his
House colleagues. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
But wait! He didn't go quite so far as to advocate anything so unthinkable as legalizing cannabis. Courage does have its limits. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(7) REP. FRANK DISCUSSES DRUG POLICY AT U.MASS-BOSTON (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Current sentencing for drug possession and usage is too harsh and a waste of taxpayer money, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told a crowd of about 50 at the University of Massachusetts at Boston Wednesday. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"The market is an enormously powerful force in a free society and people with money are greatly determined to do what they want, he said." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
According to Frank, the government's drug policies have been
by-and-large unsuccessful. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"I wish I could say there is a meaningful drug policy in this country,
but unfortunately my colleagues are happy with a non-rational policy,"
Frank said. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(8) LTE: REP. NOT NECESSARILY FOR LEGALIZATION (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The article by Hilary Bentman ("Rep. Frank discusses drug policy," Dec.
9) is accurate in many respects in reporting the talk I gave at the
University of Massachusetts-Boston on drug policy, but it is wrong in
one very important area. I was very explicit in my talk that I have not
called for legalization of any drug that is currently illegal,
including marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (9-12) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It was a bad week for the image of law enforcement: | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In Minnesota, an old case of favorable treatment for a Senator's son
led to charges for him; typically the involved police escaped
punishment. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
In LA, Patt Morrison reported on a surge in jury nullification, based-
not on opposition to drug laws- but on disbelief of cops as witnesses
following the Rampart scandal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Denver, scene of a recent police homicide, was shaken further by news
that a high percentage of its police candidates had been drug users.
What else would they expect of young adults coming of age during our
unsuccessful drug war? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finally, the Governor of Maryland, embarrassed by a hard hitting
Baltimore Sun expose of abuses and failures in a politically favored
"Boot Camp" program, was forced to shut it down. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(9) SENATOR'S SON TO BE CHARGED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
STILLWATER, Minn. - Months after a traffic stop that outside
investigators describe as brimming with sloppy police work,
authorities have decided to file misdemeanor traffic and marijuana
charges against the son of U.S. Sen. Rod Grams. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
However, the outside investigators concluded there was no evidence that
Morgan Grams, 21, received any special treatment in July when he was
allowed to go free. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Officers involved in the traffic stop won't face any charges but one,
Anoka County's chief deputy, is retiring. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(10) RAMPART SCANDAL COLORS JURY DELIBERATIONS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pick a cliche that applies: reaping what's been sown, making your bed
then lying in it, chickens coming home to roost. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Home to the Rampart Division. Home to the LAPD. Home to the courtroom. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Already, in the noxious wake of the Rampart bad-cop scandal, the L.A.
city attorney's office is noting an up tick in acquittals and hung
juries, a few more jurors telling prosecutors they just didn't believe
the cops in the witness box. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(11) DRUG USE COMMON FOR COP HOPEFULS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dec. 9 - A growing number of applicants for police jobs admit having
used drugs - a big problem given the shrinking pool of people who want
law-enforcement careers, local officials say. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It's a national problem, they say. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"We have very, very few candidates who don't have prior usage,'' said
Ellen Reath, a member of the Denver Civil Service Commission, which
tests and screens applicants. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(12) GLENDENING SUSPENDS JUVENILE BOOT CAMPS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Top state officials knew of beatings but failed to act, task force
finds; National Guard takes over; Governor and Townsend order camps
converted into residential centers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Gov. Parris N. Glendening suspended Maryland's boot camp operations
yesterday, turning them over to the commander of the state's National
Guard, and a task force in Baltimore concluded that top state officials
knew delinquents at the camps were routinely being beaten but did
almost nothing to protect them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
After a dizzying week of action surrounding the military-style camps,
Glendening and Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend ordered the
facilities converted into interim residential centers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (13) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationally syndicated columnist William Raspberry of the WP wrote
provocatively about the US incarceration binge; his last paragraph
asks a very logical question. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(13) A FRACTION OF GLOBE'S PEOPLE, A QUARTER OF ITS PRISONERS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
WASHINGTON - Americans love nice round numbers. Anticipation of a
200-yard game, the year 2000, or a 12,000 Dow can make us downright
giddy. Try this one: 2,000,000. The folks at the Justice Policy
Institute have vetted the trends, crunched the numbers and come up with
a nice round prediction. On Feb. 15, 2000, America's prison and jail
inmate population will top 2 million. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
What is involved, though, is a lot more than roundness, says JPI analyst Jason Ziedenberg. "What blew me away when I was doing this research was the whole issue of where we stand internationally," he told me. "Next year, America, with under 5 percent of the world's population, will have a quarter of the world's prison inmates." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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But what may be needed is for us simply to step back and look at what
we're doing - what we're becoming - and ask ourselves how much sense it
makes to continue along the present path. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (14-15) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A quiet week on the cannabis front, but a momentous event for the
cause of industrial hemp: the OC Register continued in its role as the
most astute source of information and interpretation on California's
volatile medical cannabis front, and a mere press release marked the
planting of Hawaii's first legal hemp crop. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(14) EDITORIAL: BETTER CLIMATE FOR 215 (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It would be premature to detect a trend in two recent decisions by the Orange County District Attorney's office not to prosecute key people involved in the Orange County medical marijuana movement. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The cases against continuing to prosecute Jack Schachter and David
Herrick were so strong that it would have been extraordinary to the
point of vindictiveness to decide otherwise. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(15) DEA PERMITS HAWAII TO PLANT INDUSTRIAL HEMP (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaii makes American history as the first industrial hemp seeds are
planted in U.S. soil since the crop was banned after WWII. Hawaiian
Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano will host the historical hemp seed
planting ceremony at the Alterna Hemp Research Project agricultural
plot in Whitmore Village on Oahu on Dec. 14, 1999, at 10 a.m. Hawaiian
time. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Esteemed plant geneticist David West, Ph.D., one of very few plant
breeders in the United States actively involved in reestablishing
industrial hemp, directs Alterna's hemp seed variety trial research in
Hawaii. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"This is a huge step for Hawaii and the U.S. as a whole. Once the DEA
removes its restrictions on growing industrial hemp freely outside of
the test plot trials, the vast economic and ecological benefits of this
plant will make themselves known to American farmers." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (16-17) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Prodded by the UN, Australian PM John Howard pulled rank to veto
injection rooms- at least temporarily- despite the continuing rise in
Australia's heroin-related deaths. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(16) AUSTRALIA: PM PULLS RANK: HALT DRUG TRIAL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
JOHN Howard has called on the states to abandon plans for safe
heroin-injecting rooms following UN advice that NSW plans were illegal
and could damage the image of the Sydney Olympics. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The UN International Narcotics Control Board has advised the NSW Government that its plans for safe shooting galleries were contrary to international drug-control conventions, had serious legal problems and might expose the Government to complicity in criminal offences. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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(17) AUSTRALIA: HEROIN DEATHS IN GRIM RISE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Heroin overdose deaths across Australia increased by 23 per cent in 1998,
figures released by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre showed
yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The number of overdose deaths in all states and territories rose to 737,
with NSW and Victoria accounting for 77.1 per cent (568) of all opiate
deaths in the country. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (18) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A tiny South Pacific Island received scrutiny from the London Times.
Anyone doubting that the illegal drug trade has carved out a niche in
world financial markets should read this article and then do a web
search on Nauru. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(18) UK: GANGS LAUNDER BILLIONS IN PACIFIC ISLAND SHACK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
IT IS 13,500 miles from the City of London to the bamboo shack on the Pacific island of Nauru, but pounds 1m can cover the distance in a fifteenth of a second. The tiny sovereign state has become a safe haven for the proceeds of drug trafficking, prostitution, people smuggling and other rackets by gangs in Britain, Russia and America. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The discovery is a potential headache for John Battle, the Foreign
Office minister with responsibility for the area. Britain endorsed
Nauru's associate membership of the Commonwealth in May, yet it is hard
to see how Nauru meets the banking rules. Its relaxed regime is an open
invitation to financial crime and money laundering. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (19) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Canada continued to be troubled by the surging popularity of raves
which are becoming ever more popular and attracting huge crowds of
generally well-behaved, drug-using teens. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(19) CANADA: SAFE TO RAVE? (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Putting a Price on Partying: With bigger raves, younger ravers and more
drugs, Vancouver wants to regulate the tribal stomps. But will that kill
their spirit? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Raves grow up | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The rave scene has set off alarm bells in city halls where municipal
authorities are trying to figure out what to do about these bashes that
gather as many as 7,000 kids in one place, with all the attendant problems
of noise, traffic congestion, crowd control, inadequate fire exits, not to
mention the big concern -- drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Another recurrent headache for drug policy planners: FARC's latest success showed that they still have plenty of military clout. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(20) COLOMBIA: REBELS HIT COLOMBIAN BASE NEAR FRONTIER (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Attack Prompts Worry Over Panama Security | ||||||||||||||||||||||
BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 13 - Left-wing rebels overran a Colombian naval
base and police station 15 miles from the Panamanian border, killing at
least 45 marines, as well as one policeman, a regional official said
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The clash, one of the most successful FARC attacks against the Colombian
military in months, came just two days before Tuesday's formal ceremony in
Panama marking the transfer of the Panama Canal into Panamanian hands,
which officially occurs on Dec. 31. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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