USA. US House votes 361-66 to pass today the EQUAL Act to end disparity between powder and crack cocaine sentences
USA. US House votes 361-66 to pass today the EQUAL Act to end disparity between powder and crack cocaine sentences
Based on data showing huge unfair disparities, the US Sentencing Commission in 1995 — more than a quarter century ago! — sent to Congress proposed guidelines changes to fix the 100:1 crack/powder cocaine disparity by adopting a 1:1 quantity ratio at the powder cocaine level. But Congress passed, and President Bill Clinton signed, legislation rejecting the USSC’s proposed guideline changes (see basics here and here), thereby ushering in decades more disproportionately severe crack sentences and extreme racial inequities in federal cocaine offense punishments. (lexblog.com,USA, 28.09.2021)
https://www.lexblog.com/2021/09/28/us-house-votes-361-66-to-pass-today-the-equal-act-to-end-disparity-between-powder-and-crack-cocaine-sentences/