Prison Sentences Of The Politically Connected

April, 1997

God bless the war on drugs. It has given us rhetorical overkill: politicians calling for drug users to be taken out and shot. Who can forget when former drug czar William Bennett endorsed the beheading of drug dealers?It has also given us a new scheme of family values and tough love: Uncle Sam--not father--knows best. If you can't keep your kids off drugs, the government will. Washington has churned out law after law mandating harsher penalties and longer prison terms for anyone involved with il...