This is HUGE business, and is the same as the HUGE business that Police Dept.s get
when they take your stuff and sell it (if you are suspected of drug crimes). They
both represent a conflict of interest which ultimately threatens any attempts at real
reform.
On Thu, 04 May 2000, "Ronald L. Wilson" wrote:
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> <h3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:
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>normal'>http://www.binghamtonpress.com/binghamtonnews/local/Monews5.html<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
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> <h3 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:
> normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
> style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
> normal'>Report takes state prisons to task<span style="mso-spacerun:
> yes"> </span></span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
> style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Lawmakers
> accused of using drug laws to create upstate jobs</span></font><font
> face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></h3>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2
> face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><span
> style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>By KYLE HUGHES </span></span></font><span
> style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><em><i
> style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Albany Bureau Writer </i></em></p>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
> 11.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
> 11.0pt'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>ALBANY - Influential state
> legislators oppose the repeal of harsh drug-crime laws because longer sentences
> produce more inmates and prisons, which mean more jobs for the economically
> depressed upstate region, a new report on New York's prison-building program
> concludes. </span></span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Upstate
> lawmakers have a vested interest in keeping those laws on the books because it
> continues the flow of prisoners into their communities and increases the
> pressure to build more prisons," charged Robert Gangi of the City Project,
> a Manhattan-based civic group that issued the report called "Following the
> Dollars: Where New York State Spends its Prison Moneys." </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The group
> is seeking the repeal of the 1973 Rockefeller Drug Laws, which require judges
> to impose long prison terms for drug crimes, such as 15 years to life for
> selling two ounces or possessing four ounces of a narcotic. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
> report out today says that 93 percent of New York's 71,000 state inmates are
> confined in prisons built in state Senate districts represented by Republicans,
> and 98 percent of all new prisons built in the last 17 years were located in
> upstate GOP Senate districts. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Gangi
> said the trend has meant that mostly white rural communities have benefited
> economically at the expense of mostly poor minority neighborhoods. Blacks and
> Hispanics make up 25 percent of the state's population, but 83 percent of
> people in prison; 94 percent of those incarcerated for drugs are black or
> Hispanic. The report notes that 20 years ago, roughly the same number of
> whites, blacks and Hispanics went to prison for drugs in New York. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"This
> highly skewed racial breakdown persists despite the fact that research by the
> federal government's Department of Health and Human Services has consistently
> shown that whites make up the vast majority of people who use drugs," the
> report says. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
> report said white drug use usually takes place behind closed doors, in business
> districts, or suburban settings away from law enforcement, while such
> activities generally occur on the streets under the watchful eye of police in
> minority communities. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Poor
> defendants also lack access to drug treatment and good legal representation,
> the report says. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
> building program - which was approved by both Republican and Democratic
> legislators - means that prisons in those rural communities take in more than
> $1.1 billion annually in state funds, including prison payrolls worth hundreds
> of millions. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Gangi,
> whose group opposes new prison construction, says the massive prison-building
> program for upstate New York launched by Gov. Mario Cuomo and continued by Gov.
> George Pataki represents "a confluence of economic need and political
> influence." </span></font></p>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
> 11.0pt'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>The report said the state
> should find better methods of economic development for upstate communities and
> consider alternatives to incarceration such as community drug treatment
> programs.</span></span></font></p>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
> 11.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
> 11.0pt'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Pataki has proposed building
> another $180 million, 750-cell maximum-security prison to hold 1,500
> double-bunked inmates. The location has not been determined, but it is expected
> to be located in Western New York or the Mohawk Valley if approved as part of a
> new budget. </span></span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>That
> drive to build more prisons to provide jobs upstate has come as the number of
> people sent to prison for drug offenses has increased significantly. In 1998,
> 47 percent of the new inmates were sent there for drug offenses, compared to 11
> percent in 1980. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
> report said 70 percent of state-prison inmates come from New York City, but
> two-thirds of all prisons are located more than a three-hour drive from
> downstate, cutting off family ties for many inmates. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
> report notes that 37 percent of New York's 71 prisons are located in the Senate
> districts represented by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ronald Stafford,
> R-Plattsburg, (12 prisons); Senate Codes Committee Chairman Dale Volker,
> R-Depew, (eight); and Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections Committee
> Chairman Michael Nozzolio, R-Fayette, (six). </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Another
> nine prisons are in the district represented by Sen. John Bonacic,
> R-Middletown, a junior member of the Legislature whose predecessor Charles Cook
> was along-tenured Republican lawmaker. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>That
> means 49 percent of the state's prisons are located in just four GOP senators'
> districts. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nozzolio
> called the report "totally irresponsible. It's race-baiting at its
> worst." </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"I
> don't see many neighborhoods in New York City requesting prisons,"
> Nozzolio added. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Gangi
> said there is undeniably a racial factor in the prison-building program because
> it benefits white areas of the state by locking up poor non-whites.
></span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"That's
> not race-baiting; that's an incredibly sound analysis that points to the racial
> injustice practiced by the government," Gangi said. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
> report said that state officials were quick to note the economic benefits of a
> new prison opening this summer in Seneca County in Nozzolio's district.
></span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
> project brings "540 new jobs and an annual payroll of some $25.2 million
> ... (and) 190 secondary jobs with an annual payroll of $3.3 million," the
> report says, quoting a Department of Correctional Services publication.
></span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thomas
> Bergin, a spokesman for Stafford, said he was not sure what the point of the
> City Project report was. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"This
> sounds like an overview of what you face when you have prisons in one area and
> prisoners coming from another area," Bergin said. </span></font></p>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
> 11.0pt'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>"We certainly welcomed
> (new prisons) because Sen. Stafford's area was economically depressed,"
> Bergin added. "They provide solid and steady employment. Why wouldn't we
> take them? Why would we turn our back on that?"</span></span></font></p>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
> 11.0pt'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><span style="mso-spacerun:
> yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span
> style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:
> yes"> </span></span></span></font></p>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
> font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'><span
>style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Downstate,
> space is at a premium <o:p></o:p></span></span></font></b></p>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
> 11.0pt'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>State Department of
> Correctional Services spokesman James Flateau said prisons are built upstate by
> necessity. Downstate, open space is at a premium, community opposition is
> strong and construction costs are higher. </span></span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Everybody
> knows that for whatever reason, construction projects seem to take longer to
> build in New York City than elsewhere in the state," he said. "You
> equally know upstate we can get a prison in the ground and open in less than
> two years." </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>When
> Cuomo proposed building a prison in the South Bronx in the 1980s, the per-cell
> cost was estimated at $275,000 - about three times as expensive as construction
> upstate. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Flateau
> also noted that former Gov. Hugh Carey opened a prison on the grounds of a Long
> Island state hospital in 1980. It was closed three years later after a campaign
> by community opponents. </span></font></p>
>
> <p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
> report said another injustice of the prison-building program is that census
> figures count inmates as residents of the areas where they are incarcerated,
> rather than their home addresses. </span></font></p>
>
> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
> 11.0pt'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>This policy "effectively
> transfers the public funds and electoral influence, which are based on the
> number of individuals living in a district, from one place to another, from
> low-income, inner-city neighborhoods of color to white, rural, upstate
> areas," the report says.</span></span></font></p>
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