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April 4, 2006

Rally against minimum drug sentences postponed

PROVIDENCE -- A rally planned for today to criticize the state's mandatory minimum drug sentences has been postponed.

The organizers, of the Providence nonprofit group Direct Action for Rights and Equity, rescheduled the event for Thursday at 3:30 p.m. outside the State House.

The group had hoped to hold the event today, on the anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, to highlight the ways mandatory minimum sentencing fuels racial disparities in the state's prison population.

Posted by Steve Peoples  at 4:34 PM | Permalink

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