Reason: Will Tennessee Finally Reform Its Draconian Drug-Free School Zone Laws?

Currently, 358 Tennessee inmates are serving sentences for drug-free school zone offenses, according to data from the Tennessee Department of Corrections obtained by Lauren Krisai, a senior policy analyst at the Justice Action Network. (Krisai is also the former criminal justice director of the Reason Foundation, which publishes this website, and she co-authored Reason's 2017 investigation.)

That number does not include cases where prosecutors dropped school zone charges in exchange for a guilty plea. The threat of a drug-free school zone charge gives prosecutors enormous leverage to extract plea deals.

https://reason.com/2020/03/02/will-tennessee-finally-reform-its-draconian-drug-free-school-zone-laws/

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