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President
Clinton
Signs
Directive:
Authorizes
$200
Million
to
try
to
Reduce
Drugs
Use...
in
Prisons
1/15/98
In what has to be considered a telling admission of the impossibility
of successfully keeping drugs out of a free society, President Clinton
this week signed a Presidential Directive which he hopes will force states
to address their failure to keep drugs out of some of the most secure facilities
in the world, prisons. The directive orders states to make an assessment
of the drug problems within their institutions. Those figures will be used
as a baseline from which to measure future success, upon which federal
prison monies will then depend.
It is widely known that virtually every prison in the country, whether
federal or state, houses an active drug trade. The contraband is usually
either smuggled in by visitors or guards. The problem is so universal that
some countries in Europe have experimented with needle exchange programs
within their institutions, attempting to stem the spread of AIDS after
having come to the conclusion that they could not keep the drugs out entirely
at any price.
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Issue #25, 1/15/98
Vasconcellos Calls for Medical Marijuana Access in Face of Federal Action Against Clubs | Defense Fund Established for Buyers' Club Defendants | Washington State Bill Authorizing Medical Marijuana to be Considered: Your responses needed! | Pentagon Proposes Ending Military Border Patrols | President Clinton Signs Directive: Authorizes $200 Million to try to Reduce Drugs Use... in Prisons | EU Parliament Delays Vote on Drug Commission Report | Colombian Foreign Minister: "If US Doesn't Certify Us, There Will be a Political Earthquake" | British Medical Journal, Lancet, Calls on US to Act on Needle Exchange | New Australian Harm Reduction-Based Drug-Ed Program Sends Kids to Teach Kids | Nuclear Cruiser USS California Deployed in Drug War | Harm Reduction Workshop in Boston
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