Reason: Will Tennessee Finally Reform Its Draconian Drug-Free School Zone Laws?
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Currently, 358 Tennessee inmates are serving sentences for drug-free school zone offenses, according to data from the Tennessee Department of Corrections obtained by Lauren Krisai, a senior policy analyst at the Justice Action Network. (Krisai is also the former criminal justice director of the Reason Foundation, which publishes this website, and she co-authored Reason's 2017 investigation.)
That number does not include cases where prosecutors dropped school zone charges in exchange for a guilty plea. The threat of a drug-free school zone charge gives prosecutors enormous leverage to extract plea deals.