As many as 12,000 people in federal prisons for crack cocaine related crimes will get their sentences reduced as the result of a new law that brings the penalties for crack into line with those for powdered cocaine. According to the federal courts, the sentences for crack were discriminatory, because those who use crack tend to be inner city thugs instead of wealthier thugs who can afford the powder drug.
It's OK by me if they make the penalties the same for each drug -- a drug dealer is a drug dealer. But instead of increasing the penalties for powder cocaine possession, they reduced the penalties for crack possession. And the U.S. Sentencing Commission has decided to make it retroactive. So that means thousands of crack pushers are going to be released on our streets. Makes you proud to be an American, doesn't it?
"12,000 inmates may get crack sentences reduced." The Dallas Morning News; July 1, 2011; p. 1A.
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Good grief! It just keeps getting worse and worse. Just when you think they (all the idiots in power) couldn't possibly top themselves, they do!
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