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By The Sentencing Project

'Cocaine cost Willie Mays Aikens his Major League Baseball career and his life savings, but the former slugger says it shouldn't have cost him 14 years of his life. Aikens, who spent almost a decade and a half in a federal prison on drug charges, will tell a congressional panel on Wednesday that the disparity in sentencing for crack and powder cocaine erodes trust in the justice system, ruins lives and destroys families. ‘When I was in prison I got a chance to know a lot of good people, and I know that if those people were given a chance to be out on the street and be with their families again, they will not go to prison again,' Aikens said yesterday during a conference call with reporters organized by the Crack the Disparity Coalition, a network of religious, criminal justice and civil rights groups dedicated to sentencing reform...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).