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Drugnews Archive
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updated: Wed Oct 15 01:10:01 PDT 2008
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Community Audits and Initiatives Project
As many drug policy reform activists are discovering, the highest and most direct
level of democracy often takes place at the lowest levels of government. This is
reflected in the many successful municipal audits and initiatives that have taken
place over the last few years. From Seattle's I-75, to Oakland's Measure Z, to
Syracuse's Plan B, these important local actions can expose and erode the faulty
presumptions that underpin the war on drugs, and they often resonate well beyond
their geographical boundaries.
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 "The rate of incarceration in prison and jail was 701 inmates
per 100,000 residents in 2002, up from 601 in 1995. At yearend 2002,
1 in every 143 U.S. residents were incarcerated in State or
Federal prison or a local jail."
Source: Harrison, Paige M. & Beck, Allen J., Ph.D.,
US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners
in 2002 (Washington DC: US Department of Justice, July 2003), p. 2.
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