Mandatory minimum sentences in the United States have failed to reduce crime and have instead driven mass incarceration, ...

PHOENIX – The Arizona House unanimously passed a bill last week that would eliminate sentencing disparities between crack and powdered cocaine. Under current state law, it takes 9 grams of cocaine ...

In the few days since the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to make changes in federal sentencing guidelines for crack-cocaine offenders retroactive, the decision has drawn both grumbling and applause ...

As determinate sentencing and existing mandatory minimums have taken hold over the last generation,” says Georgetown Law ...

Whisler When crack cocaine appeared on American streets in the 1980s, it presented a new and troubling drug problem for law enforcement. As a concentrated derivative of powdered cocaine, crack ...

Lawrence Garrison felt a tinge of hope last month when President Barack Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which reduced the disparity in the amounts of powder cocaine and crack cocaine required ...

Advocates for criminal justice reform are pushing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to advance a bill that would eliminate the long-standing sentencing disparities in place for people found guilty ...

If you have a bag of cocaine and you want to add years to the prison sentence you will face if arrested and convicted, one quick way is to go to the stove with a box of baking soda and cook your ...

We did our last update on President Obama's campaign promise to eliminate the disparity in sentencing for crack and cocaine on July 14, 2010. For the past two decades, possession of five grams of ...

Congress fixed the sentencing disparity for crack in 2010. They now need to do so for Oxycodone, correcting sentencing ranges to reflect its potency in relation to other drugs such as heroin and ...