Disparity Remains in Minority Jailings

Published October 22, 2013

Disparity remains in minority jailings

Filed under: Crack Vs Cocaine Disparity

Adding to that, an American Civil Liberties Union report issued in June raised questions when calling a disparity between whites and blacks in Iowa for marijuana-related arrests the nation's worst. The ACLU report found that, despite nearly equal use … Read more on The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines

Presumed guilty: Obama's shocking record on pardons

Filed under: Crack Vs Cocaine Disparity

In a record that may surprise many political observers, the Obama administration's pardon attorney, Ronald Rodgers, has teed up the lowest rate of pardons and commutations of any recent administration. “This president is the most miserly … The raw … Read more on MSNBC

The Attorney General and Mandatory Drug Laws

Filed under: Crack Vs Cocaine Disparity

Attorney General Holder's reforms are intended to improve the performance of drug-related incarceration in terms of both efficiency (more bang for the buck) and equity (reducing racial disparity). Will the new policy achieve these goals? From that … Read more on The American