Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Cases in the Western District of Virginia

Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Cases in the Western District of Virginia

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The article contained some interesting statistics that appear to show that, as a percentage, there are more criminal drug cases in the Western District of Virginia than the national average. And that the average drug-related sentence (91 months) was …
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Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

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The experience among those states is encouraging: their rate of drug use is actually lower than the rate of drug use in states in which simple possession is a felony. (See p. 11 of the California Senate's analysis.) Not only that, but more people enter …
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Raleigh police make arrest in alleged food stamps for tattoos fraud

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Raleigh police arrested Clifford Craig Tittle, the owner of Ink Addiction Tattooz, this week and charged him with buying and distribution of food stamps and conspiracy to obtain property under false pretenses. Raleigh police discovered early in 2013 …
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Police, state agencies team up with FBI to deal with prescription drug abuse – Metro police and other state agencies have teamed up with the FBI in hopes of tackling the problem of prescription drug abuse on the street level.