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"Corruption is endemic in the enforcement of drug
laws.
Many people who have cash
and property seized are never charged with a crime.
Many police
departments are dependent on drug related seizures for basic budget items." -
Clifford A. Schaffer In rural East Texas,
methamphetamine labs often operate unnoticed.
Misdemeanor drug charges
in Smith County; about 100 miles southeast of Dallas, are as common as drunk driving
arrests according to district attorney Matt Bingham.
In the
last six years, the Troup police force sent just 2 felony drug cases to the
district attorney's office.
Major Mike Lusk, head of criminal
investigations for the Smith County Sheriff's Department, said Troup
police sent a total of two drug evidence samples to the Texas Department of
Public Safety crime lab since 2000.
"We do that much in an hour." -
Major Mike Lusk
"It appears from the current investigation that the
problem is not with the Troup Police Department prosecuting innocent people, it
is that they were not prosecuting
guilty people." - district attorney Matt Bingham
"America
contains 4% of the Earth's population and has incarcerated 25% of all
imprisoned people on Earth.
Twenty years ago America spent $36 billion
on police, courts and incarceration a year while today it spends $167 billion.
The economic costs of a criminal justice system that emphasizes
punishment and
incarceration at the expense of rehabilitation and the potential for
recovery are unsustainable." - Joe Domanick, senior fellow in criminal justice
at USC Anneberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism.
"Since
1975 California criminal justice policy
has developed haphazardly, through laws passed by politicians whose chief goal
was to appear to be tougher
on crime than their opponents.
One
obstacle to serious reform in
the California prisons is the California Correctional Peace Officers
Association, the correctional officers union, which wields tremendous political
power.
Even legislators who understand the issues involved in
transforming
the prison system have been unable to do what they need to do because of the
union's willingness to use dollars and scare tactics against reform-minded
politicians." - Jeanne S. Woodford, California Department of
Corrections
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