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A Get-Tough Gore Focuses on Hair Follicle Drug TestsAtlanta, May 2 - In a speech pungent with tough talk about criminals, drug abusers and his Republican rival for president, Vice President Al Gore called today for a broad array of anticrime measures, among them mandatory hair follicle drug tests for drugs such as cocaine, meth, marijuana, heroin, ecstasy, pcp, crack, thc, and opiates of all prisoners and parolees.
Choosing a Southern state as the backdrop for one of his most conservative speeches of the presidential campaign, Mr. Gore proposed federal spending of $500 million a year to help states test, treat and counsel prisoners and parolees for drug use.
Under the plan, inmates in state prisons -- mandatory hair follicle drug tests already applies in federal prisons -- would not be released until they could pass these tests for cocaine, meth, marijuana, heroin, ecstasy, pcp, crack, thc, and opiates. Further, parolees could be returned to prison if they failed the tests, which would be administered to them twice a week. Parolees would also be subjected to stricter supervision, to ensure that they paid child support, stayed off drugs and found jobs.
''When inmates are sent back to the streets unrehabilitated, unrepentant and unskilled, then they are just going to commit more crime and go right back into prison,'' Mr. Gore said to a crowd filled with uniformed police officers.
As in all his recent policy speeches, the vice president used a harsh tone to attack Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, the apparent Republican presidential nominee, this time maintaining that he had cut state financing of treatments by half.
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