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How was the North Country’s prison industry born?

by on January 24th, 2013

Source: Wikipedia

Our year-long journey into the history of the Rockefeller drug laws launched today.

In Boxers who want to join that conversation — click over to prisontime.org.   A lot of the details of how the tough-on-crime drug laws were shaped surprised me.

I’d be particularly interested to hear from COs, former COs, and from folks who live in prison communities across the region.

It’s kind of an irony, right, that Governor Nelson Rockefeller shaped the North Country first by creating the modern Adirondack Park, and then by laying the foundation for many of the 15 state prisons in our region.

2 Comments on “How was the North Country’s prison industry born?”

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  1. oa says:
    January 26, 2013 at 11:44 pm

    Can’t log on to the other prisontime blog, but if you’re not throwing out David Dinkins’ 10K new cops in NYC in the early 90s helping bring down New York’s murder rate, you’re not giving a fair assessment of all the theories. Likewise, the end of unleaded gasoline theory.

  2. oa says:
    January 27, 2013 at 10:36 am

    Oops. Meant “introduction” of unleaded gasoline. Or end of “lead in” gasoline.
    Here’s a post on that: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline
    Scroll down to the graphs.

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