Republican-NRA-led drug war, mandatory minimum sentences, and handguns

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 * See also: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate.
 * See: The U.S. Drug War. Republicans lead. Democrats follow. Everybody pays

Whatever good the NRA has done is far outweighed by its part in creating an incarceration nation. See Portal:Drug war charts and maps. See Wikipedia: Mandatory minimum sentencing, and Two and Three Strikes laws.

NRA history of CrimeStrike
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By the way, the "truth-in-sentencing" (mandatory minimum sentencing) and "Two and Three Strikes" laws apply to nonviolent criminals too. And the NRA has often demonized drugs.

Not for Praise, but for Principle. August 18, 1995. An address to the 17th Annual NRA National Shooting Coaches and Instructors Conference. By Thomas C. Wyld, Director, PR & Communications, National Rifle Association. Institute for Legislative Action. Fairfax, Virginia. Quote (emphasis added):
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 * That's why, in the first six months of this year alone, NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, through its CrimeStrike Division, has worked toward criminal justice reform and victims' rights in fifteen states -- from "Three Strikes You're Out" in Vermont to the "Hard Time for Armed Crime" Initiative in Washington state. Think about that. Criminal justice reform. And victims' rights. In fifteen states. In just six months. By one citizens' group. Yours. The National Rifle Association. NRA is working for -- and passing -- Two and Three Strikes laws to ensure that repeat offenders are kept behind bars for life. NRA is working for -- and passing -- truth-in-sentencing to require violent criminals to serve eighty-five percent of sentences imposed.
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Corporate Con Game. June 21, 2010. By Beau Hodai, In These Times. Quote (emphasis added):


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 * In the early '90s, the ALEC's Criminal Justice Task Force was co-chaired by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the country's largest private prison company. During those years, the National Rifle Association (NRA), another task force member (and the current task force co-chair), initiated a campaign to introduce two pieces of ALEC-inspired legislation at the state and federal level: the so-called "truth-in-sentencing" and "three-strikes-you're-out" laws. Truth-in-sentencing called for all violent offenders to serve 85 percent of their sentences before being eligible for release. Three strikes called for mandatory life imprisonment for a third felony conviction. The NRA campaign, dubbed "CrimeStrike,"...
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10 Myths of Gun Control. March 1996, NRA Institute for Legislative Action. Quote (emphasis added):


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 * NRA is meeting that challenge with its CrimeStrike division, established to advance real solutions to the crime problem while protecting the rights of all honest citizens. Working in states across the nation, CrimeStrike has worked for passage of "truth in sentencing laws" which require that criminals actually serve at least 85% of time sentenced, "Victim's Bill of Rights" constitutional amendments, and "Three Strikes You're Out" laws.
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When Misery Means Profit: Immigration Enforcement, the Prison Industry and ALEC. 2011 article. AZ resists ALEC. Quote (emphasis added):
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 * In the early 1990s, the NRA, an ALEC member, initiated a campaign called CrimeStrike designed to win passage of ALEC’s “Truth in Sentencing Act” and “Habitual Violent Offender Incarceration Act” in state legislatures. Between 1993 and 1995, truth-in-sentencing laws were adopted by twenty states and by 1998 ALEC could declare victory as truth-in-sentencing bills had become law in 40 states.  In addition, 25 states now have three-strikes laws similar to ALEC’s model legislation.  Of course, the result of this legislation is predicable and well documented: during the 1990s, prison construction boomed, the incarceration rate doubled driven by a prison population expansion of one-half million people and private jailers secured lucrative new contracts to house thousands of inmates from overcrowded public facilities.
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More links
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 * NRA's Mandatory Minimum Sentencing campaigns. National Rifle Association.
 * Mechanism of fascism in the USA. Incarceration NRA.
 * Chart. U.S. Federal Mandatory-Minimum Drug Sentences. Non-violent possession only. Drug War concentration camps.

Truth in sentencing:
 * Google search: truth in sentencing.
 * Truth in Sentencing Laws | eHow.com.

Skyrocketing costs:
 * GUEST OPINION: Elderly prisoners pose little risk, big cost - Fall River, MA - The Herald News.

Canada:
 * Video. "Pot & Politics. Chris Bennett at Occupy Vancouver!" The Harperization of the Drug War in Canada. Stephen Harper's slavish imitation of the U.S. drug war and "truth in sentencing".

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