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NY Re-Examines Tough Drug Laws
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1993, page 5
Former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller decided to launch a "get tough on crime" approach to dealing with that state's drug users and dealers. In 1973 Rockefeller had the state legislature pass a "lock `em up and throw away the key" approach to drug crimes. Twenty years later, law enforcement …
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