Federal Appeals Court: Drug Sentencing Disparity Is Intentional Racial 'Subjugation'
Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 07:31
in Mathematics & Economics
Since Congress recognized the gaping racial disparity between mandatory minimum sentences for crack offenses and cocaine offenses and reduced the ratio from 100-to-1 to 18-to-1, courts have grappled with when and how to apply the statute to already-decided cases. Last year …