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More progress for drug policy reform in 2006!
The State of Minnesota will spend $600,000 next year to expand drug courts throughout the State.
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June 1 , 2006
Supreme Court Chemical Dependency Task Force pushes for Drug Courts Statewide
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May 17, 2006
Let’s do better than ‘getting tough’ on meth
Ivan Sletten
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May 8, 2005
A Better Way To Go With Drug Offenders
Reps. Eric Lipman, R-Lake Elmo, and Keith Ellison, DFL-Minneapolis
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March 11, 2004
Minnesota Drug Laws Toughest in Region
Minnesota taxpayers could save up to $30 million a year
if nonviolent drug offenders now flooding state prisons in unprecedented
proportions were sent to treatment instead, a new report to the
Legislature suggests.
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Published Jan 21, 2004
©2004 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.
Pioneer Press Article on Minnesota's Drug Policy
More than 30 percent of people sentenced to prison in
Minnesota in 2002 were drug offenders, up from only about 12 percent
in 1990, the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission found in
a study released Wednesday, January 14, 2004.
The full article will be available on the Web for a limited time:
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©2004 Pioneer Press and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
Transcript of WCCO piece on the SGC Report
The average sentence for drug offenders was 50 months,more than
double what it was in 1988. Dan Knuth represents the Drug Policy
Reform Group, which is seeking a change in sentencing. He says the
legislature should consider sentencing changes that make greater
use of treatment and community supervision for low level drug offenders.
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©2004 The Associated Press.
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