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Parents Push for More Lenient Penalty on Drug Charges

By John Krol

Great Barrington, MA – A group of parents in southern Berkshire County is pushing hard to spare 19 young people, arrested on school-zone drug charges, from spending a two-years in prison -- which is the mandatory sentence in Massachusetts. WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief John Krol has more.