Syria.
(via bashi-bazouk)
I can’t make sense of what’s happening in Syria. I have absolutely nothing to say.
Thousands of these prisoners are incarcerated for life or for 20, 10, or 5 years under mandatory minimum crack cocaine sentences imposed prior to the passage of the Fair Sentencing Act. More than 80 percent of federal prisoners serving crack cocaine sentences are black. In fiscal year 2010, before the passage of the Fair Sentencing Act, almost 4,000 defendants, mainly black, received mandatory minimum sentences for crack cocaine.
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| — | A new federal court decision blasts racial disparities in drug sentencing as akin to slavery and Jim Crow. (via think-progress) |
