Teenager Faces Weymouth Magistrates' Court Charged With Drug Offences

Published January 22, 2013

Teenager faces Weymouth Magistrates' Court charged with drug offences

Filed under: drug rehabilitation

Storm Darch, 18, formerly of Beverley Road and now of no fixed abode, is charged with possessing the Class B drug mephedrone with intent to supply between October, 2011 and March, 2012 and possessing criminal property, cash, on March 7 last year. He …
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Study: Those on parole, probation involved in one out of five arrests

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Terri McDonald, undersecretary for prison and parole operations at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said the report's findings that parolees and probationers are twice as likely to be arrested for drug-related offenses …
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Johnny Cash and his prison reform campaign

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"He identified with the prisoners because many of them had served their sentences and had been rehabilitated in some cases, but were still kept there the rest of their lives. He felt a great empathy with those people." The roots of Cash's empathy lie …
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