Bills seek longer sentences for fentanyl, heroin dealers

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Bills seek longer sentences for fentanyl, heroin dealers

(The Center Square) – Michigan Rep. Sarah Lightner, Jackson County Prosecutor Jerard M. Jarzynka and two local families who have lost children to opioid overdoses support longer sentences for some illegal drug dealers. Grieving families support giving judges 'better tools' to punish drug dealers who lace drugs with fentanyl that kill users. House Bills 5124, […]

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