Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:35pm EDT
By Joan Gralla
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state officials agreed on Friday to relax harsh 1970s drug laws that required prison sentences for nonviolent drug crimes in favor of laws that will let judges send addicts to treatment programs.
The new regulations will save the state about 'a quarter of a billion dollars' a year in costs for housing prisoners, Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith said at a news conference in Albany, the state capital."
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