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Founded in April 2004,
the Real Reform New York Coalition is committed
to replacing the current inhumane, ineffective
and wasteful Rockefeller Drug Laws with cost-effective,
just, and community-based alternatives. Real Reform
New York is made up of dozens of organizations
representing thousands of community members, activists,
advocates, policy and treatment experts, and Rockefeller
Drug Law survivors and their friends and families.
We are the peoples' movement for real Rockefeller
reform, and we are united because we are the people
who have the most to gain from real reform.
Real Reform New York defines real reform as:
The work of Real Reform
New York is to (a) continue building a strong,
vibrant movement for real reform of the Rockefeller
Drug Laws; (b) closely monitor the legislative
process as it develops, clarifying whether or
not Rockefeller Drug Law related legislation meets
the tests for real reform; and (c) support those
members of the legislature (on both sides of the
aisle) who are friends and advocates of real reform.
Over the last 30 years policymakers across the
country have passed tough sentencing laws that
criminalize drug addiction instead of treating
it as a health issue, creating an institutional
nightmare of mass-incarceration. More than 500,000
people will spend the night in a prison or jail
tonight due to a drug conviction, costing Americans
billions of dollars a year. The Rockefeller Drug
Laws, passed in 1973, were among the first such
laws and remain some of the harshest in the nation.
Real Reform New York intends
to "turn the tide" against these failed,
destructive laws.
The join the Real Reform New
York Coalition, click
here.
For more information on
the Rockefeller Drug Laws, click
here.
Contact:
Real Reform
70 West 36th St., 16th Floor
New York, New York 10018
phone: 212.613.8048
email: gsayegh@drugpolicy.org
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