How Fair Is It That a Drug Dealer and a Drug User Is Sentenced the Same?
Question by barb e: How fair is it that a drug dealer and a drug user is sentenced the same?
I am doing a report in Social Service Law class and I wanted personal imput to report. I know it is to the drug dealers advantage to plea as a drug user in order to get a lessor sentence. fair/notfair? Technically what the drug user needs is treatment; keeping in mind that it will only work if they want it.
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Answer by olin h
court system and the jails are full. Fair is not the point practical is
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