Congress Approves Crack Cocaine Sentencing Changes

Congress Approves Crack Cocaine Sentencing Changes
Washington…Addressing what both Democrats and Republicans agreed was a quarter-century old injustice in drug sentencing, Congress gave final approval Wednesday to a bill reducing the penalty for crack cocaine offenders.
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US: End in Sight for Infamous Crack Cocaine Laws
Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) — Legislation approved by the House on July 28, 2010, will dramatically alter the historically more punitive approach to federal crack cocaine offenders that led to racial …
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Gap in Sentences for Powder and Crack Cocaine Convictions Narrowed
Congress has changed a quarter-century-old law that has sent tens of thousands of blacks to prison for crack cocaine convictions while giving far more lenient treatment to those, mainly whites, caught with the same amount of the drug in powder form.
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