Fair Sentencing Act Changes Assure Crack Houses Will Reopen 28 Months Earlier

Posted on | August 4, 2010 | No Comments |

I guess affirmative action applies to drug traffickers, too.

Under the current penalty structure, established during the so-called "crack epidemic" of the late 1980s, possession of crack can carry the same sentence as the possession of a quantity of cocaine that is 100 times larger.

So-called "crack epidemic"? No bias there.

According to U.S. Sentencing Commission figures, no class of drug is as racially skewed as crack in terms of numbers of offenses. According to the commission, 79 percent of 5,669 sentenced crack offenders in 2009 were black, versus 10 percent who were white and 10 percent who were Hispanic. The figures for the 6,020 powder cocaine cases are far less skewed: 17 percent of these offenders were white, 28 percent were black, and 53 percent were Hispanic. Combined with a 115-month average imprisonment for crack offenses versus an average of 87 months for cocaine offenses, this makes for more African-Americans spending more time in the prison system.

Somewhere in an LA hood, a crack wh0re is sweeping the floors of a crack house 28 months earlier than planned after it was left empty when her pimp got arrested .

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