Bipartisan Bill to Reform Mandatory Minimums Introduced in US House
In 2010, President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act into law, which significantly reduced the racially unjust disparity in crack and powder cocaine sentences and eliminated the first mandatory minimum penalty since the 1970s. This year, in addition … Read more on The Daily Chronic
Congress Could Save Tens of Thousands of Americans Today. Here's How.
It would also apply the Fair Sentencing Act—which reduced the crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity—to those currently serving sentences for these offenses. And today Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Raul Labrador (R-Id.) introduced their own … Read more on American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)
Eric Holder Says The Justice System He Leads Is Broken. Can He Fix It?
a former U.S. attorney, about lessening the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. President Barack Obama eventually signed a law to address the disparity in 2011. Holder also did away with the Ashcroft memo, a 2003 directive from … Read more on Huffington Post