Court Rules Fair Sentencing Act Not Applicable to Inmates Sentenced under …

Court Rules Fair Sentencing Act Not Applicable to Inmates Sentenced under …
In 2010, Congress passed the FSA to reduce the irrationality and unfairness occasioned by a federal sentencing structure under which 100 grams of powder cocaine triggered the same sentence as a single gram of crack cocaine. Congress made this change in … Read more on Afro American

JAWS and the 2014 Hall of Fame ballot: Mark McGwire
As the game finally began cracking down on the proliferation of PEDs in 2005, increasing attention was drawn to his involvement with the drugs. For some voters, his appearance on the 2007 Hall of Fame ballot turned the task of filling it out into an … Read more on SI.com

Telling a Dark Story to Offer Some Light
Though her movement is now limited by her obesity and the heart and lung problems she suffers after years of addiction to crack cocaine, she said, she likes getting out of her apartment to recount the story of her life, to anyone willing to listen … Read more on New York Times