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60 minutes. More than they deserve? / produced by David Gelber.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cocaine.
- Drugs--Law and legislation.
- Drugs.
- Prisons--Overcrowding--United States.
- Prisons.
- Genre:
- Television news programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (13 min.)
- Other Title:
- More than they deserve?
- Sixty minutes. More than they deserve?
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System, 2003.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- In the wake of the cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, Congress passed harsh sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimum sentencing laws, even for the smallest offense. As a result of those laws, the Federal prison population has quadrupled since 1987, costing taxpayers four billion dollars a year. Now objections are being voiced by Federal judges over the severity of the laws in light of the fact that many people shouldn't be in prison at all and others are serving sentences much to harsh for the crime. Ed Bradley reports.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 23, 2015).
- OCLC:
- 904558840
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