Posts Tagged ‘War on Drugs’
Color of Change: Stop Discriminatory Sentencing
Every year, thousands of people are put away for long prison terms because of arcane and racist sentencing laws. They punish people caught with crack cocaine — who are often Black and poor — 100 times more harshly than those caught with powder cocaine. These laws have [Read More]
Smoke a Joint and Your Whole Family Could End Up Homeless
For 40 years, we have been waging a “war on drugs.” Families are being kicked out of housing when many have done nothing wrong. Drug addiction is bad. But the war on drugs is worse. Frances Johnson, a 68-year-old grandmother in Washington, D.C faced eviction [Read More]
Phone and Email Data-Mining Used in War on Drugs, Too
Do not let it be said that the Bush administration forgot the War on Drugs while waging the War on Terror. read more | digg story [Read More]
Supreme Court Says Crack Sentences Can Be Reduced
The Supreme Court on Monday said judges may impose shorter prison terms for crack cocaine crimes, enhancing judicial discretion to reduce the disparity between sentences for crack and cocaine powder. read more | digg story [Read More]
Panel says 19,500 crack inmates can seek reduced sentences
The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. read more | digg story [Read More]
