Crack Cocaine and Minorities
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines
Inner-city ethnic and racial lines. 61 Crack is cheaper than pow-dered cocaine and is easier to break down and package into small quantities for distribution. It is, therefore, prevalent in the inner cities, where minorities are substantially represented … Doc Retrieval
Journal Of Contemporary Criminal Justice
Sale and use of crack cocaine, which is typically used by racial minorities, carried with it heavier criminal penalties than those associated with other illegal drugs such as powder … Read Here
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• “When the Sentencing Commission voted in November to lower sentencing guidelines for crack-related crimes, and bring them closer to sentences for powder cocaine, Obama favored applying the new terms retroactively to current prisoners… Noting that the laws mostly affect minorities … Access Content
The Overrepresentation Of Young Black Males Within …
Of minorities in juvenile and adult correctional institutions is due to combined societal considerably harsher penalties for crack–cocaine than powder-cocaine, and resulted in … Fetch Doc
ACE AND LASS ENALTIES IN RACK OCAINE ENTENCING
Since minorities and lower income persons are most likely to inhabit these areas, they are therefore at greater risk of arrest for crack cocaine possession than are white and higher income powder offenders. … View This Document
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Current Penalties’ Severity Mostly Impacts Minorities • The overwhelming majority of offenders subject to the heightened crack cocaine penalties are black, about 85 percent in 2000 (see Chapters 5 and 8). … Retrieve Doc
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minorities sent to prison and it is obvious that the sentencing procedures are racially . 1 The Sentencing Project. “Crack Cocaine Sentencing Policy: Unjustified and Unreasonable.” … View Doc
Drug War Facts: Mandatory Minimums
Severity of crack cocaine penalties mostly impacts minorities. "Based on these findings, the Commission maintains its consistently held position that the 100-to-1 drug … Read Content
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Same time, crack cocaine users are usually poor, uninsured minorities with low levels of education, members of traditionally underserved groups, with … Access Full Source
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Nor was the statistical evidence showing that the crack–cocaine sentencing scheme burdened minorities more than whites. Eventually, judicial criticism petered out. … Doc Viewer
V.04-50026—July 2004—900 Printed In Austria Drug Abuse …
Concerns about the use of crack cocaine and, more recently, meth-amphetamine by some ethnic groups within inner cities have drawn attention towards drug abuse among ethnic minorities. … Document Retrieval
STATEMENT OF JUDGE REGGIE B. WALTON UNITED STATES DISTRICT …
I do not believe that the 1986 Act was intended to have a disparate impact on minorities, but while African-Americans comprise approximately only 12.3 percent of the United States population in general,22 they comprise approximately 81.8 percent of federal crack cocaine … View Doc
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3) The current quantity-based penalties overstate the seriousness of most crack cocaine offenses and fail to provide adequate proportionality, and 4) The current severity of crack cocaine penalties mostly impacts minorities. … Access Document
SUMMARY: ISSUES SURROUNDING DRUG USE AND DRUG SERVICES …
Ethnic minorities in England This is the LDAN summary of Jane Fountain?s series of publications1 to inform drug service ? The use of crack cocaine and, especially, of heroin may have been underreported by study … Retrieve Content
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The sentencing disparity created by the Anti – Drug Abuse Act of 1986 unfairly led to a disproportionate number of crack cocaine offenders who happened to be minorities sentenced to harsher and longer prison sentences than their po wder cocaine, and mostly white counterparts. … Fetch Content