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Drug barons ‘should get mandatory life in jail’.

Dara Gantly-2013-04-10-Scientific Repository (Petra Christian University)

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Those convicted of major drug crimes should be given mandatory life sentences, the IMO has agreed.
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\nProposing the motion for the IMO to lobby the Minister for Justice to impose such sentences, Mayo GP Dr Oliver Whyte said that while misery was being imposed on our society, the “gang lords” were living in style in large houses and driving large cars.
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\n“The gardaí don’t seem to be able to get them, but the Sunday papers seem to have no trouble getting them. So I think the message should go out to the people involved in supplying drugs that if they get caught… they will be locked up and we will throw away the key.”
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\nTralee GP Dr Bernard Ruane referenced New York City’s recent crime prevention measures, which had increased safety on the streets through a policy of “rounding-up drug dealers and putting them away for a long, long time”.
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\nExpressing his concerns, however, Public Health Specialist Prof Joe Barry questioned if a

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Those convicted of major drug crimes should be given mandatory life sentences, the IMO has agreed.
\n 
\n
\n
\nProposing the motion for the IMO to lobby the Minister for Justice to impose such sentences, Mayo GP Dr Oliver Whyte said that while misery was being imposed on our society, the “gang lords” were living in style in large houses and driving large cars.
\n 
\n“The gardaí don’t seem to be able to get them, but the Sunday papers seem to have no trouble getting them. So I think the message should go out to the people involved in supplying drugs that if they get caught… they will be locked up and we will throw away the key.”
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\nTralee GP Dr Bernard Ruane referenced New York City’s recent crime prevention measures, which had increased safety on the streets through a policy of “rounding-up drug dealers and putting them away for a long, long time”.
\n 
\nExpressing his concerns, however, Public Health Specialist Prof Joe Barry questioned if a

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