Notes: New York State of Mind?

1. Figures based on a academic year budgeting. The New York State Legislature's Ways and Means Committee, Higher Education Analyst, August 29, 1998; Pleven, Liam. "Cut and Slash: Pataki vetoes $760 million from election-year budget." Newsday, April 27, 1998. Confirmed by Ways and Means Staff, August 27, 1998.
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2. For the purposes of this study, we did not include capital spending on higher education or corrections projects. Ibid.
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3. "Mandatory Sentencing Laws and Drug Offenders in New York State," The Correctional Association of New York. NY, NY: 1998.
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4. Based on a table generated by the University System of Maryland's public information office, drawn from The Chronicle of Higher Education (11,1: 1996); (8, 2: 1996), and The Survey of Current Business (11, 1996).
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5. "Mandatory Sentencing Laws and Drug Offenders in New York State," The Correctional Association of New York. NY, NY: 1998.
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6. "Rockefeller Drug Law Reform," The Correctional Association of New York. NY, NY: 1998.
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7. National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: 1996. Washington, DC: Department of Health and Human Services, July, 1997.
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8. Ibid.
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9. "The SASU Response to the Governor's Budget," The Student Association of the State University of New York. Albany, NY: February, 1988
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10. Data supplied by the CUNY's Office of Institutional Research and Analysis.
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11. "Ethnic Distribution of Inmates Under Custody of Department of Correctional Services Facilities," State Department of Correctional Services, September 1, 1998.
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12. Special data set, generated by State Department of Correctional Services, data analysis unit, measuring new court commitments, 1973 to 1997, by race and ethnicity.
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13. Ibid.
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14. "Student costs taken from: "Trends in Tuition and Other Basic Student Charges, 1963-64 through 1997-98." Report Number 19-97A., Academic Planing, Policy and Evaluation, System Administration, State University of New York. Albany, NY: 1997.
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15. Median family income data taken from, Mishel, Lawrence et al. The State of Working America, 1998-99. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1998.
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16. Hardin, Blain. "Reading, Writing and Ruckus: City University of New York's Tougher Standards Anger Many." The Washington Post, Sunday, June 2, 1998.
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17. "Mandatory Sentencing Laws and Drug Offenders in New York State," The Correctional Association of New York. New York, NY: 1998.
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18. Inciardi, James et al. "An effective model of prison-based treatment for drug-involved offenders," The Journal of Drug Issues, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1997; Caulkins, Jonathan P. et. al. Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences: Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayers' Money?, The Rand Corporation. Santa Monica, CA: 1997.
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