More than two decades ago, President Ronald Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, making penalties for possession of crack-cocaine offenses 100 times harsher than those for powder cocaine ...

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 ...

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 ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – A federal judge in Iowa has sharply criticized the U.S. Department of Justice for creating massive drug sentencing disparities by failing to have a policy, until recently, ...

The administration signaled its support for changing the sentencing rules for crack cocaine when an official with the U.S. Justice Department testified before Congress on April 29, 2009. Lanny Breuer, ...

WASHINGTON — A federal public defender asked the court to consider President Donald Trump’s pardons of Jan. 6 defendants while sentencing offenses from political protests in his defense of a man who ...

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 ...

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn hasn’t warmed to the idea of reforming sentencing disparities. Credit: Photo by John Anderson After years of discussion and hand-wringing, a U.S. Senate committee on March 11 ...

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 ...

President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act into law Tuesday, correcting a long-standing imbalance between sentences handed down for possession of crack cocaine and sentences for possession of ...