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Archive 2001
On September
10, 2001, CJPF President Eric E. Sterling delivered a
statement
regarding the nomination of John P. Walters to be Director
of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
at a press conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by
the Coalition for Constitutional Liberties. The press
conference was held in response to the September 11, 2001,
Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing of Walters.
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CJPF President Eric E. Sterling has contributed to two
August 2001 magazine special reports on drug policy reform.
First, The Economist, one of the most respected
magazines in the English language, has a 16-page
special survey on drugs in the July 28 - August
3, 2001 issue.
Second, a Rolling Stone magazine
forum on America's War on Drugs is in Issue
875, August 16, 2001. Entitled, "Special Report, The
War on Drugs, A Way Out -- 35 Leaders Speak Out. The
report includes interviews with:
- Dan
Rather, CBS News
- John
Timoney, Police Commissioner, Philadelphia, PA
- Orrin
Hatch, U.S. Senator
- Bernard
C. Parks, Chief of Police, Los Angeles, CA
- Asa
Hutchinson, U.S. Representative (DEA Administrator
nominee)
- Barney
Frank, U.S. Representative
- Gary
Johnson, New Mexico Governor
- Loretta
Sanchez, U.S. Representative
- Henry
A. Waxman, U.S. Representative
- Dave
Matthews, musician
- Carl
Hiaasen, novelist and columnist
- Scott
Weiland, musician
- Norm
Stamper, Chief of Police, Seattle, 1994-2000
- Eric
Sterling, President, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
- David
Crosby, musician
- Richard
Branson, Chairman, The Virgin Group
- Bob
Barr, U.S. Representative
- Paul
Wellstone, U.S. Senator
- William
E. Kirwan, President, Ohio State University
- Jerry
A. Oliver, Chief of Police, Richmond, VA
- John
Gilmore, entrepreneur and Chairman, Electronic Frontier
Foundation
- Bill
O'Reilly, Fox News
- Woody
Harrelson, actor
- Tommy
Lee, musician
- Peter
Singer, philosopher and Professor of Bioethics, Princeton
University
- Scott
Turow, novelist and lawyer
- Tobias
Wolff, writer
- Jonathan
P. Caulkins, professor and RAND researcher
- Nelly,
musician
- Bob
Weir, musician
- Kay
Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychiatry, John Hopkins
University
- Joe
Arpaio, Sheriff, Maricopa County, AZ
- Peter
Jennings, ABC News
- Paul
Greengard, neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner
- Robert
A. Iger, President and CEO, The Walt Disney Co.
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On May 15, 2001, National Public Radio's (NPR) documentary
America's Drug War featured an interview with
CJPF president Eric E. Sterling. The documentary was produced
by American Radio Works, a documentary branch of Minnesota
Public Radio and NPR.
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On May 14, 2001 CJPF Eric E. Sterling was mentioned in
an editorial by the Wall Street Journal, titled
Still
Walters, regarding John P. Walters, President
Bush's nominee for director of the White House Office
of National Drug Control Policy. The quote from Mr. Sterling
in the Journal editorial is from an editorial
in the Detroit Free Press.
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On Mother's Day - May 13, 2001, The Coalition for Jubilee
Clemency (CJC) distributed a Mother's Day sermon by Rev.
Bernard “Skip” Keels, M. Div., Every
Saint Has a Past, Every Sinner Has a Future, regarding
forgiveness and restoration of mothers serving long sentences
behind bars for low-level, nonviolent offenses. Rev. Keels
is Senior Pastor at the United Methodist Church in Baltimore,
MD, and is a member of the steering committee for the
CJC.
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In May of 2001 The Institute for Policy Studies' Foreign
Policy in Focus series published Drug
Policy: Failure at Home, an article by CJPF president
Eric E. Sterling. The article discusses the domestic impact
of the U.S. war on drugs.
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On April 30, 2001, The Detroit Free Press quoted
CJPF president Eric E. Sterling in an editorial
critical of John P. Walters, President Bush's
nominee for "drug czar," the head of the White House Office
of National Drug Control Policy. On May 14, the Wall
Street Journal cited Mr. Sterling's quote in the Free
Press in their editorial titled Still
Walters.
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On April 28, 2001, CJPF president Eric E. Sterling gave
a keynote speech at "Beyond the War on Drugs: Why It Failed.
What It Cost. What Now?" -- a conference presented by
the National Lawyers Guild. The event was held at the
Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, MI.
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On April 13, 2001, CJPF issued a press release, "Federal
Prison Population Shoots Over 150,000. In the
press release, CJPF president Eric E. Sterling recommends
that the Bush Administration refer low-level cases to
state and local agencies, increase drug treatment, and
grant clemency to deserving low-level Federal offenders,
saving precious criminal justice resources at a time when
President Bush is proposing criminal justice budget cuts.
***
On April 11, 2001, CJPF released the Spring 2001 issue
of On Balance, our quarterly newsletter. The issue
features articles about President Clinton's last-minute
clemencies for low-level drug offenders and the hit movie
"Traffic's" 10-point drug plan, and CJPF president Eric
E. Sterling's remarks at the 2000 Shadow Convention in
Philadelphia. A downloadable PDF
file of the issue is available here.
***
On March 25, 2001, The Orange County Register published
an op-ed by CJPF president Eric E. Sterling, titled Stuck
in a 'Traffic' jam. The op-ed outlines an effective
and humane 10-point drug strategy, the one the drug czar
(played by Michael Douglas) in the hit movie "Traffic"
should have delivered.
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On March 24, 2001, the Coalition for Jubilee Clemency
released its
Year 2000 Letter to President Clinton Campaign Final Report
and Recommendations for Action. The report details
the success of the CJC campaign in encouraging President
Clinton to grant clemency to low-level offenders. A hard
copy is available by contacting CJC at info@cjpf.org.
***
On March 21, 2001, the Center for National Policy released
"Interdiction
and Incarceration Still Top Remedies: 74% Say Drug War
Being Lost" -- findings by the PEW Research Center
for the People and the Press. CJPF president Eric E. Sterling
presented comments
at the release of the findings at the Willard Hotel in
Washington, D.C.
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On March 14, 2001, the American Criminal Law Review
sponsored a debate on the nation's war on drugs between
U.S. Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA) and Eric E. Sterling, President,
The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. The debate was
moderated by Juan Williams, Host, National Public Radio's
Talk of the Nation. The debate was held in the
Moot Court Room at Georgetown University Law Center in
Washington, D.C. A transcript of the debate was published
in vol 38 issue 4 of the American Criminal Law Review
(Fall 2001) at pp. 1537-1564.
***
On February 24, 2001, the Washington Post published
a
letter to the editor by CJPF President Eric Sterling.
The letter was in response to an op-ed
by William J. Bennett regarding lessons from the
hit movie "Traffic."
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On January 31, 2001, CJPF President Eric E. Sterling spoke
at "The Drug War, Prisons and Colombia," a forum sponsored
by The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and The Progressive
Challenge Network. The panel was held in the Rayburn House
Office Building on Capitol Hill.
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On January 21, 2001, on his last day in office, President
Clinton commuted the sentences of twenty-one Federal drug
offenders, a list of which is at
www.usdoj.gov/opa/commutationspaocht.htm. For
more information, see www.famm.org/.
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On January 16, 2001, CJPF President Eric Sterling joined
Salt Lake City Mayor "Rocky" Anderson, clergy, parents,
and sentencing experts in a press conference on Capitol
Hill calling on President Clinton to grant clemency to
low-level, nonviolent Federal drug offenders. A
press release is available here.
Eric Sterling's statement is available by clicking
here.
Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann's
statement is available by clicking here. |
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