NYCLU talks about Rockefeller reform

March

The planned changes to the state’s Rockefeller Drug Laws will be the main topic of a panel discussion by members of the New York Civil Liberties Union tonight at 7. Three panelists will talk about what programs exist now and what makes drug rehabilitation work, now that mandatory minimum sentences will be a thing of the past, giving judges more discretion in sentencing drug criminals.

The speakers will be Dr. Rudy Cypser of CURE, or Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants, Westchester defense lawyer Mayo Bartlett and Robert Maccarone, New York State’s Director of Probation and Correctional Alternatives. Maccarone is the former director of the Westchester County Office of Criminal Justice.

The meeting will be at the Ethical Culture Society at 7 Saxon Wood Road in White Plains. For more information about the event and the NYCLU, click here.

Logo courtesy of the NYCLU

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 at 2:57 am by Rebecca Baker.
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