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Article: DRUG OFFENSES LEAD REASONS FOR PRISON PRESSURE ON ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 30, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... Associated Press United Press International Drug offenses have become the leading cause of incarceration ... state prisons) today are in for drug offenses," said Correctional Services Department ... not have a breakdown of the type of drug offenses for which inmates are serving time ...

Article: Prison for drug offenses puts us all in shackles
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 31, 2006 ;     629 words ... ... number of people imprisoned for drug offenses. It never had a goal of locking up African Americans for drug offenses at a rate higher than any other ... Illinois locked up 456 people for drug offenses. By 2002, that number had reached ...

Article: Five Executed for Drug Offenses in Iran
Xinhua News Agency;  March 19, 2001 ;     361 words ...Five people found guilty of drug offenses were executed Monday morning ... judiciary to curb and uproot drug offenses. On February 22, law enforcement ... arrested 500 people involved in drug offenses in the district, which is believed ...

Article: Four men face drug offenses charges in Australia
Xinhua News Agency;  June 15, 2007 ;     416 words ...Four men face drug offenses charges in Australia CANBERRA ... four men are facing charges with drug offenses, according to an official statement ... Thursday and charged them with drug offenses. All of them will appear in court ...

Article: Although blacks and whites use and sell drugs at similar rates, ...
Corrections Compendium;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... likely than whites to be imprisoned for drug offenses, reported the Justice Policy Institute ... which people are sent to prison for drug offenses and the rates at which people use drugs ... La., sent people to prison for drug offenses at a rate 36 times that of Rockingham ...

Transcript: Analysis: Push to change a law that denies federal student aid ...
NPR All Things Considered;  March 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... student aid to students convicted of drug offenses Host: MELISSA BLOCK Time: 8:00 ... who've been convicted of even minor drug offenses. Ms. MELENDEZ: Everybody deserves ... scrapped because it punishes minor drug offenses more severely than serious crimes ...

Article: Drug offenses should not affect education
University Wire;  May 13, 1998 ;     637 words ... ... measure in the current bill denies students convicted of drug offenses from receiving federal aid. But such a proposal misses the ... educational access is the proposal to ban those convicted of drug offenses from receiving financial aid. The amendment, introduced ...