The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, moved to end sentencing disparities that have imposed different penalties for different forms of cocaine and worsened racial inequity in the US justice system. For decades, federal law has imposed harsher sentences for crack cocaine even though it isn’t scientifically different from powder cocaine”, Garland wrote in a memo. Response by Rev. Al Sharpton […]
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