Daughter Is Sent to Jail

JBrown72073 at cs.com JBrown72073 at cs.com
Fri Jul 19 07:22:51 PDT 2002


In a message dated 7/18/02 10:58:02 PM, owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com writes:
>> Didn't the Supreme Court agree to allow that rule that public housing
>> residents be evicted if any member is involved with drugs? Jeb Bush
>> should be checking the classifieds, I would think.
>> Jenny Brown, Gainesville, Florida
>
>From: "pms" <laflame at aaahawk.com>
>What a great idea for a campaign to show the punitive nature of these rules?
>Does she live at home? < ...>

The ugliness of the law, as I understand it, is that you don't even have to be living there. Not only are you a target, but the immiseration of your whole family is the goal. It doesn't look rational, of course, but then it's impossible to understand the drug war without analyzing it racially (Rockefeller & Nixon's get the blacks/get the hippies strategy). We recently had a case here where a woman was arrested for possession of crack, charges dropped (since she didn't actually have any crack), but because she was arrested they started to evict her from public housing. The housing authority claimed in that case that it didn't have to prove you used or possessed drugs, just that a 'credible source' (i.e. the arresting officer in this case) said you did. The upside is she fought, appealed it and won. That never made the newspaper of course.

Jenny Brown



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