It's 35 years later and the Rockefeller Drug Laws are still on the books! Get involved with Drop the Rock’s Campaign to Repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws!

UPCOMING EVENTS

RALLY AGAINST THE ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS!
Thursday, May 8, 2008, 12:00 PM
250 Broadway in Lower Manhattan
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Next Drop the Rock Coalition Meeting
Thursday, June 5, 2008, 6:00 PM
Correctional Association of New York
2090 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., Suite 200 (@ 125 th Street), NYC
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To become involved, call Caitlin Dunklee at 212-254-5700 x339 or email cdunklee@correctionalassociation.org.

WHAT ARE THE ROCKEFELLER DRUG LAWS?

Enacted in 1973, when Nelson Rockefeller was governor, the Rockefeller Drug Laws require harsh prison terms for the possession or sale of relatively small amounts of drugs.

• There are now over 13,000 drug offenders in NY's prisons; most of them minor offenders with no history of violent behavior.
• It costs NY nearly $500 million a year to imprison drug offenders.
• Over 90% of the people locked up in NY for drug offenses are African American or Latino, despite research showing that the majority of people who use and sell drugs are white.
• Research shows that drug treatment is cheaper than imprisonment and more successful in reducing drug related crime.
• Moreover, repealing the Drug Laws would save the fiscally strapped state up to $200 million per year.

After over 35 years, it is long past time to remove the stain of these wasteful, unjust, ineffective & racist laws from NY’s penal code.

DROP THE ROCK

A powerful array of individuals and organizations throughout New York State is working vigorously on DROP THE ROCK, the Campaign to Repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

Drop the Rock is composed of young community activists, veteran criminal justice reformers, artists, students, former inmates, politicians, and religious, civic, and labor leaders, all of various ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, geographic locations, religious beliefs and political proclivities.

Drop the Rock is at a crucial point. After years of resistance to change in Albany and only minimal reform, a new state administration has taken office and may very well be receptive to meaningful reform. The Drop the Rock Coalition must keep the pressure on until that change becomes a reality.

Join us in our campaign to end over 30 years of racist, ineffective, destructive and wasteful drug laws in New York State.