Originally Posted By: getthesenets
Originally Posted By: getthesenets

Not mentioning the NY and other state mandatory sentences for possession is a GLARING omission. State prisons have locked up people to the point of overcrowding for possession. In fact, several states including your state UTAH, have scaled back these mand. min. laws and changed laws reducing what were once felonies to misdemeanors. Again, this is happening in different parts of the country....so not a simple side versus side issue.



2014 article about the proposed law change in Utah

http://fox13now.com/2014/10/22/drug-poss...ah-law-changes/

The idea had the backing of Utah Dept. of Corrections Executive Director Rollin Cook, who told FOX 13 he estimates as much as 25-percent of the prison population is there on drug possession.


yeah, Ivy this is one of those cases where you post something , I comment and challenge some of it....using YOUR state as a recent example of people changing their views about these laws.

I'm the second poster in this thread....yet if you addressed what I wrote in the 2nd and 3rd posts in this thread I must have missed it.

The mandatory minimums were reversed/abolished in YOUR state.

http://www.crj.org/news/entry/utah-passes-epic-criminal-justice-reform-legislation

I brought it up....posted article about it and you made the choice to not comment.


Again, I don't know what you're looking for. If I had just posted my own view or opinion on the issue, rather than an article, you may have a point. But what does you taking issue with the article have to do with me? I'm not sure the article's findings apply across the board in every state but I found it interesting considering how often it's claimed that our prisons are full of people who had a little bit of weed on them or drug users who just need help.

Mods should mind their own business and leave poster's profile signatures alone.