unintended consequences gallery
9min | Not Rated | 2001
“Unintended Consequences” is a documentary short focusing on the draconian impact of the Rockefeller Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws on families and communities in New York City by following a group called The Mothers of the New York Disappeared and former inmate, Terrence Stevens, who from childhood was paralyzed from the neck down and who served 9 years of a fifteen-to-life sentence before being granted clemency. The film was produced in association with the Drug Policy Institute, who spearheaded the campaign to bring about changes to the Rockefeller Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws.
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