When the governor of the State, Nelson Rockefeller, decided to target major drug dealers, he created a law that would send anyone in possession of a certain quantity of drugs to jail, sometimes for years at a time. However, those who are major dealers are able to lower the sentencing easier than those who are, say, first time offenders. They know how to work the prosecution better because they know how to provide specific detailed information, which many first time offenders can't.
These drug laws have been called racist by many groups, due to how high the percentage of Blacks and Latinos is in prisons. Another conflict facing this law is how much money is being spent on these laws. Instead of cheaper ways to fix the drug problems, such as community counseling or any other sort of drug treatment, tax payers instead pay immense amounts of money to send drug dea
lers to jail. In today's economy, is that what we should be paying for?
1 comment:
Excellent writing and reasoning.
Watch use of titles. In fact look up TITLES in the stylebook. It's tricky. You would write Gov. Rockefeller but the title governor without a name after it is lower-case as in: The governor says the state is in bad financial shape.
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