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Newshawk: Alex
Webpage: http://www.stargazettenews.com/local/Tulocal8.html
Pubdate: Tue, 15 Oct 2002
Source: Star-Gazette (NY)
Copyright: 2002sStar-Gazette
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Website: http://www.stargazette.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1005
Author: Yancey Roy
GOLISANO LATEST TO URGE REPEAL OF ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS
ALBANY -- Independence candidate for governor B. Thomas Golisano called for
a repeal of New York's harsh drug sentencing laws Monday, saying they were
ineffective and racially biased.
Golisano unveiled a plan that would lower minimum sentences and give judges
increased sentencing discretion. The Rochester-area billionaire will start
running TV ads Wednesday in English and Spanish to promote overhauling the
drug law. The ads feature family members of people serving time for drug
offenses.
New York's Rockefeller-era drug laws were a top issue in the legislative
session earlier this year, but neither Republican George Pataki nor
Democrat H. Carl McCall have made it a primary topic during the campaign
homestretch. Golisano and McCall said Pataki hasn't delivered on a promise
to change the drug laws, enacted in 1973 under the late Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller. There are about 20,000 drug offenders in state prisons, nine
in 10 of them African-American or Hispanic.
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