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Prisoner Tape Offered as Evidence Against Rockefeller Drug Law Reform

By Roy Edroso Mon., Jun. 8 2009 at 12:22 PM
Categories: Albany, Civil Liberties, Crime, Crime and Punishment, Featured, Legal
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The Staten Island District Attorney's office posts, and the New York Post and Staten Island Advance circulate, a tape of a prison inmate bragging that when he gets out, thanks to the misguided repeal of the Rockefeller Drug Laws, he will return to a life of crime. "Now that I know that I'm never gonna face no real time?" he asks rhetorically, "I'm gonna do what I gotta do to wipe my ass." He details his criminal record, which he believes will render him eligible for a drug treatment program in lieu of prison. The D.A., Daniel Donovan, seems to find this dispositive, and announces that the state district attorney's association will form a committee to monitor the new laws to see if they increase crime as he expects. The Governor has signed a bill, but provisions of the new law are still being debated in Albany.

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