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US House should eliminate crack/powder disparities for cocaine sentencing

It's been a while since I've written to my Congressman under my own steam, as opposed to in response to some organization's action alert showing up in my email box, but the chance to reduce or eliminate the federal crack-powder cocaine sentencing disparity (discussed by Doug Berman at Sentencing Law & Policy here, here, and here) inspired me to send this brief message over Rep. Lloyd Doggett's constituent contact form:Please work as hard as you can to pass the legislation just over from the Senate to reduce the crack-powder sentencing disparities over what amount triggers mandatory sentence enhancements. S. 1789 would change the disparity from 100-1 to 18-1, which is better but still unjustifiable. I'm hoping to see/hear my Congressman pushing strongly to reduce that ratio to 1-1 in the House...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).