High time for drug reform but not legalisation says senior Tory MP NICK DE BOIS
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Here, senior Tory MP Nick de Bois, who helps lead the party's influential 1922 Committee, argues that drug addicts should receive treatment, not prison sentences. But reformed addict and author Barry Woodward – whose charity Proclaim Trust talks to …
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Why millions of low-income Americans are jailed without being convicted of a …
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And 75 percent of felony defendants will be judged innocent, given probation, or sent to rehabilitation programs and never end up being sentenced to prison, says longtime correctional researcher James Austin. … "Every case of unnecessary pretrial …
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Political Notes: The Nathan Deal many of us didn't know existed
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And he proposed diverting non-violent first-time drug offenders from prison to community rehabilitation programs. That scored points with … The feds would pay most of the costs of adding hundreds of thousands of uninsured people. But Deal says …
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