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New look at sentencing guidelines for cocaine

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The U.S. Sentencing Commission tallied all 4,262 crack cases for 2006. It calculated a median drug quantity of 1.8 ounces." New look at sentencing guidelines for cocaine Claire Cooper Sunday, March 8, 2009 SF Chronicle Willie Mays Aikens has returned to Kansas City, where he's still a star. He's worked in construction and hopes to land a job with Major League Baseball, maybe as a counselor, he says, "talking to people about what drugs can do to a person." People in Kansas City still talk about Aikens' four home runs for the Royals in the 1980 World Series. They seem ready to forgive the crack cocaine bust that earned him a 16-year prison term. "It takes a big man to step back into the limelight after such a dark path," wrote one blogger...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).