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Drugnews Archive
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Community Audits and Initiatives Project
As many drug policy reform activists are discovering, the highest and most direct
level of democracy often takes place at the lowest levels of government. This is
reflected in the many successful municipal audits and initiatives that have taken
place over the last few years. From Seattle's I-75, to Oakland's Measure Z, to
Syracuse's Plan B, these important local actions can expose and erode the faulty
presumptions that underpin the war on drugs, and they often resonate well beyond
their geographical boundaries.
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 "As a result of increased prosecutions and longer time served
in prison, the number of drug offenders in Federal prisons increased
more than 12% annually, on average, from 14,976 during 1986 to
68,360 during 1999."
Source: Scalia, John, US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice
Statistics, Federal Drug Offenders, 1999 with Trends 1984-99
(Washington, DC: US Dept. of Justice, August 2001), p. 7.
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