Until now, the mandatory minimum sentence for possession of crack cocaine was 5 years in prison. It took 500 grams of powder cocaine to get the same sentence. This disparity has huge repercussions against the poor and communities of color…meanwhile, the white hipsters doing lines in the bathroom of the Beauty Bar are not worried about potential incarceration.
Check out the transcript on Democracy Now!:
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/12/commission_makes_thousands_of_prisoners_jailed
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