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The residents of the legendary Big House that is Sing Sing could not be blamed if 11 years ago they didn’t feel the old prison lived up to its nickname. With nearly 2,300 inmates housed at the maximum-security prison in Ossining, it was a little closer to a cramped house. But that’s not the case […]

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The residents of the legendary Big House that is Sing Sing could not be blamed if 11 years ago they didn’t feel the old prison lived up to its nickname. With nearly 2,300 inmates housed at the maximum-security prison in Ossining, it was a little closer to a cramped house. But that’s not the case […]

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The United States puts more people behind bars than any other country, five times as many per capita compared with Britain or Spain. It wasn’t always like this. Half a century ago, relatively few people were locked up, and those inmates generally served short sentences. But 40 years ago, New York passed strict sentencing guidelines […]

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From drug possession to drug trafficking, a look at laws regulating controlled substances. Drug laws and drug crimes have gotten lots of attention in the past decade. Laws in every state and at the federal level prohibit the possession, manufacture, and sale of certain controlled substances — including drugs like marijuana, methamphetamine, ecstasy, cocaine, and […]

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A growing number of states are renouncing some of the long prison sentences that have been a hallmark of the war on drugs and instead focusing on treatment, which once-skeptical lawmakers now say is proven to be less expensive and more effective. Kentucky on Thursday became the latest to make the shift when Gov. Steve […]

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