Under that formula, a person convicted for selling 5 grams of crack cocaine was treated the same as someone who sold 500 grams of powder cocaine. That proportion was narrowed to 18 to 1 in 2010.

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US Attorney General calls for end to cocaine sentencing disparity. Memos from the head of the US Justice Department take aim at drug policies linked to high rates of Black incarceration.

While we wait for the United States Senate to pass the Equal Act, effectively and finally eliminating the sentencing disparity between two forms of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Gen. Merrick Garland ...

When crack, a cocaine derivative, swept through the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, Congress passed a law – crafted by then-senator and now-President Joe Biden – setting harsher ...

A former security minister and ex-judge from Costa Rica was charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to import cocaine after being ...

Celso Gamboa Sanchez, a former security minister and judge from Costa Rica, has been indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury in ...

A U.S. District Court judge has sentenced three Raleigh County residents to federal prison for taking part in a local drug ...

Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Senior Director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law: “President Biden should use his clemency power to bring an end at last to an injustice that ...

The crack epidemic thus exacerbated existing racial disparities within the criminal justice system and entrenched systemic inequalities. According to "A Brief History of Crack Cocaine Sentencing Laws" ...

According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Joseph Acevedo, 40, and Stanley Rumowski, 49, were convicted by a jury in Fort Pierce on July 18 for trafficking cocaine.

A Jacksonville man pleaded guilty to selling fentanyl and crack cocaine while armed to an undercover Jacksonville sheriff’s ...