Это война с наркотиками
May. 22nd, 2007 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdwatcherChicago Tribune In 1984, someone caught selling a half-teaspoon of cocaine in Illinois could have received probation.
Today, after two decades of increasingly tough laws enacted by the General Assembly, that offender would go to prison for at least 4 years.
The result has been a prison system swamped with drug offenders, without much change in the rate of drug abuse, said Kathleen Kane-Willis, the report's primary author.
State Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale) called such measures "a hodgepodge mess of feel-good statutes and press release material" but acknowledged that he votes for them, too. No politician, he said, can afford to be branded soft on crime.
Today, after two decades of increasingly tough laws enacted by the General Assembly, that offender would go to prison for at least 4 years.
The result has been a prison system swamped with drug offenders, without much change in the rate of drug abuse, said Kathleen Kane-Willis, the report's primary author.
State Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-Hinsdale) called such measures "a hodgepodge mess of feel-good statutes and press release material" but acknowledged that he votes for them, too. No politician, he said, can afford to be branded soft on crime.
