Drug Law’s Addiction to Racial Disparity

Drug Law’s Addiction to Racial Disparity – ColorLines’ Tammy Johnson applauds the Obama administration’s move to reform drug policy to a health-based approach, and lays down some figures on our curren…

U.S. Drug Czar: 'I Was Wrong. Addiction Is Not A Moral Failing'
The 96-page report includes a one-paragraph section on sentencing that notes only that the Fair Sentencing Act reduced the disparity between cocaine and crack sentences from 100 to 1. It does not note, however, that the disparity is still 18 to 1, or …
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BUSINESS EXCHANGE – Who Speaks for You?
A highly focused look at the war on drugs, and the unfair application of crack cocaine sentencing disparities. Don't let anyone tell you differently, race matters. As you go about daily life, take this truism from Frederick Douglass with you: “If there …
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Saint Paul's to hold 125th annual commencement exercise
Scott successfully led efforts in the House to pass the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the crack and powder cocaine sentencing disparity from a ratio of 100:1 to 18:1. Rep. Scott is also a leading critic against warrantless wiretapping and the …
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End mass incarceration; the time is now
This disparity saw persons in possession of crack, a drug more often used by people of color, to receive roughly the same sentence as those persons posing 100 times as much cocaine, a drug typically associated with whites. To this end, the authors ask …
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