Real Reform New York Fact Sheet - Sentence Reduction
The Legislature’s changes
to the sentencing laws in 2004 and 2005 have not
altered the fact that the penalties mandated by
the RDLs are exceptionally harsh. In 2004, then
Senate Minority Leader David Paterson issued a
report whose central finding is as true today
as it was then: New York State has, by
far, the harshest drug-sentencing statute in the
entire country for a low-level drug seller
with a prior non-violent felony conviction. New
York is out of step with the many states that
have in recent years enacted appropriate sentencing
reforms for low-level users and sellers.
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