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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in his final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes. “Today, I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...