TV celebrity Tashiro faces 4-years prison for ...
27-January-2005, Japan, Mainichi Interactive
Prosecutors on Thursday demanded former TV personality Masashi Tashiro be sentenced to prison for four and a half years for using illegal drugs.
Tashiro, 48, bought illegal drugs from a foreign dealer around spring last year and used them with a ...
Torture treaty doesn't bar `cruel, inhuman' ...
26-January-2005, United States, Knight Ridder
By Frank Davies / Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON - Alberto Gonzales has asserted to the Senate committee weighing his nomination to be attorney general that there's a legal rationale for harsh treatment of foreign prisoners by U.S. forces.
In more ...
Ex-cop: Rein in the war on drugs
18-January-2005, United States, PittsburghLIVE.com
Howard Wooldridge rode into town last weekend on his horse, just like a lawman from the Old West. But the former detective didn't visit Pittsburgh to lock up bad guys. He was here to lecture on what he feels is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on ...
French Chef Jailed in Singapore Drugs Case
10-January-2005, Singapore, Scotsman.com
Award-winning French chef Francois Fabien Mermilliod was sentenced to the minimum term of one year in prison today in connection with a high-profile drug case in Singapore.
Mermilliod, 29, was one six foreigners charged in the case, including the ...
The Ending of the Rockefeller Drug Penalties Is ...
09-January-2005, United States, The New York Times
By LESLIE EATON
Published: February 9, 2005
EDFORD HILLS, N.Y. - If any group of prison inmates has attracted public sympathy, it was the women whose first brush with the law left them locked up here for 15 years or more on drug ...
Black Legislators: Drug War Has Failed
02-January-2005, United States, Pacific news Service
Eyeing the failure of California voters to repeal Three Strikes laws, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators has approved a resolution condemning the "war on drugs" and calling for "alternatives to failed polices."
Among their ...
Changing tactics in war on drugs
27-December-2004, United States, The Daily News
A proposal by a state House member should give us all cause to take a hard look at America's war on drugs.
The state legislator, Rep. Alice Bordsen, D-Alamance, is suggesting that non-violent youthful offenders who have committed felonies be ...
Ex-banker jailed for drugs
26-December-2004, Singapore, News24.com
A former British banker was jailed for 12 months in Singapore after admitting he consumed cocaine, according to weekend media reports.
Andrew William Veale, 40, was among 14 people charged after police busted an elite cocaine and party-drug ring ...
The ‘Drug War’ toll mounts
13-December-2004, United States, The Eureka Reporter
In Washington, D.C., a 27-year-old quadriplegic is sentenced to 10 days in jail for marijuana possession, where he died under suspicious circumstances.
In Florida, a wheelchair-bound multiple sclerosis patient now serves a 25-year prison sentence ...
Free of Drugs and Alcohol, and Acting Like a ...
06-December-2004, United States, The New York Times
Dennis Barton was a promising young man, a member of the Boys Clubs of America, a hobbyist who built model ships and airplanes, a fan of James Brown, and a regular at church on Sundays.
But things started going south, as he puts it, when he ...
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