$31 of pot gives mom 10-year-prison, No prior
Ten years for selling 2-3 joints of pot is ridiculous!!!!
but not in Oklahoma, who locks up the most women in the World!
What a waste of resources ... looks like we the tax payers get to pay private prisons HUGE $$$$ to lock her up for TEN years.
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TAFT Because of $31 in marijuana sales, Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow is now serving 10 years in prison, has been taken away from her four young children and husband, and has ended her work in nursing homes.
* Woman's new life as inmate begins
02/20/2011 After a two-hour trip wearing ankle and wrist shackles, Patricia Spottedcrow and six other women, all dressed in gray, enter prison at 11:15 a.m. Dec. 22 to...
* Inmate's children feel brunt of penalty
02/20/2011 KINGFISHER Holding back tears, 9-year-old Koby whispers words like mad and sad when talking about his imprisoned mother. His mom, Patricia...
Three days before Christmas, Spottedcrow, 25, entered the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center.
I'm nervous because it's prison people I don't know, she said.
People said don't get too comfortable here or you'll be here longer. Don't make too many friends. Come and do your time and get out.
Marijuana transactions
On Dec. 31, 2009, Spottedcrow and her mother, Delita Starr, 50, sold a dime bag of marijuana to a police informant at Starr's home in Kingfisher, court records state.
Starr handled the transaction and asked her 9-year-old grandson Spottedcrow's son for some dollar bills to make change for the $11 sale.
Two weeks later, the same informant returned and bought $20 of marijuana from Spottedcrow.
The two women were arrested for drug distribution and because Spottedcrow's children were in the home, an additional charge of possession of a dangerous substance in the presence of a minor was added.
It just seemed like easy money, said Spottedcrow, who says she is not a drug user but has smoked marijuana. I thought we could get some extra money. I've lost everything because of it.
The women were each offered plea deals of two years in prison. But because neither had prior convictions and the drug amounts were low, they gambled and entered a guilty plea before a judge with no prior sentencing agreement.
Starr received a 30-year suspended sentence with no incarceration, but five years of drug and alcohol assessments. Spottedcrow was sentenced to 10 years in prison for distribution and two years for possession, to run concurrently. She will be up for parole in 2014.
http://www.newsok.com/how-31-of-pot...article/3542585?custom_click=lead_story_title
Ten years for selling 2-3 joints of pot is ridiculous!!!!
but not in Oklahoma, who locks up the most women in the World!
What a waste of resources ... looks like we the tax payers get to pay private prisons HUGE $$$$ to lock her up for TEN years.
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TAFT Because of $31 in marijuana sales, Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow is now serving 10 years in prison, has been taken away from her four young children and husband, and has ended her work in nursing homes.
* Woman's new life as inmate begins
02/20/2011 After a two-hour trip wearing ankle and wrist shackles, Patricia Spottedcrow and six other women, all dressed in gray, enter prison at 11:15 a.m. Dec. 22 to...
* Inmate's children feel brunt of penalty
02/20/2011 KINGFISHER Holding back tears, 9-year-old Koby whispers words like mad and sad when talking about his imprisoned mother. His mom, Patricia...
Three days before Christmas, Spottedcrow, 25, entered the Eddie Warrior Correctional Center.
I'm nervous because it's prison people I don't know, she said.
People said don't get too comfortable here or you'll be here longer. Don't make too many friends. Come and do your time and get out.
Marijuana transactions
On Dec. 31, 2009, Spottedcrow and her mother, Delita Starr, 50, sold a dime bag of marijuana to a police informant at Starr's home in Kingfisher, court records state.
Starr handled the transaction and asked her 9-year-old grandson Spottedcrow's son for some dollar bills to make change for the $11 sale.
Two weeks later, the same informant returned and bought $20 of marijuana from Spottedcrow.
The two women were arrested for drug distribution and because Spottedcrow's children were in the home, an additional charge of possession of a dangerous substance in the presence of a minor was added.
It just seemed like easy money, said Spottedcrow, who says she is not a drug user but has smoked marijuana. I thought we could get some extra money. I've lost everything because of it.
The women were each offered plea deals of two years in prison. But because neither had prior convictions and the drug amounts were low, they gambled and entered a guilty plea before a judge with no prior sentencing agreement.
Starr received a 30-year suspended sentence with no incarceration, but five years of drug and alcohol assessments. Spottedcrow was sentenced to 10 years in prison for distribution and two years for possession, to run concurrently. She will be up for parole in 2014.
http://www.newsok.com/how-31-of-pot...article/3542585?custom_click=lead_story_title
