Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform

Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reform – Congressman Dan Lungren (R-Gold River-CA) addressed Congress today on the issue of changing the crack cocaine sentencing laws –which he supports – to reflec…

How Our Incarceration Rate is a Public Health Problem

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Some sentencing laws seem little less than perverse. For example, in the 1980s, crack cocaine received a great deal of public attention. In response, the U.S. Congress passed legislation imposing a 100 to 1 sentencing ratio for possession of crack … Read more on EBONY.com

Massive blow to criminal gangs as drugs kingpin jailed for 18 years

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Detectives from the garda national drugs unit cracked the code that Baron used to communicate by text and email with his own associates and the leaders of the Irish gangs. Baron, a former truck driver from Salford, Manchester, had developed his own … Read more on Irish Independent