Taking a crack at fairness in crack sentencing

As detailed in this ACLU press release, a “coalition of criminal justice advocacy organizations is launching ‘It’s Not Fair. It’s Not Working,’ a national effort to reform the 100-to-1 federal sentencing disparity ratio between crack and powder cocaine.”  Here is more from the press release:

“All Americans want to live in drug-free communities.  Unfortunately this law locks up small-time drug users who need to be in treatment programs instead of prison,” said Nkechi Taifa of the Open Society Institute (OSI).  Other coalition partners include The Sentencing Project, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA)….  The coalition will release a series of ads that focus on the disparity in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine.

More information is available at this link from The Sentencing Project, which shows some of the print ads that are part of this campaign.