PHOENIX – The Arizona House unanimously passed a bill last week that would eliminate sentencing disparities between crack and powdered cocaine. Under current state law, it takes 9 grams of cocaine ...

WASHINGTON — A federal public defender asked the court to consider President Donald Trump’s pardons of Jan. 6 defendants while sentencing offenses from political protests in his defense of a man who ...

Whisler When crack cocaine appeared on American streets in the 1980s, it presented a new and troubling drug problem for law enforcement. As a concentrated derivative of powdered cocaine, crack ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – A federal judge in Iowa has sharply criticized the U.S. Department of Justice for creating massive drug sentencing disparities by failing to have a policy, until recently, ...

(CNN) — President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in his final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn hasn’t warmed to the idea of reforming sentencing disparities. Credit: Photo by John Anderson After years of discussion and hand-wringing, a U.S. Senate committee on March 11 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gov. Jared Polis on Friday vetoed a bill that would have mandated Colorado’s municipal courts conform to state sentencing guidelines. The governor, in a ...

Advocates for criminal justice reform are pushing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to advance a bill that would eliminate the long-standing sentencing disparities in place for people found guilty ...

President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act into law Tuesday, correcting a long-standing imbalance between sentences handed down for possession of crack cocaine and sentences for possession of ...