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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks About The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Mass Incarceration, Obama War on Drugs, Ronald Reagan, Prison, Richard Nixon, Crack Cocaine, Michelle Alexander, The War on Drugs, Cocaine, Crack, Southern Strategy, War on Drugs Failure, Black Voices News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Mike Sacks

Supreme Court Weighs Fate Of Crack Dealers

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A couple of convicted crack cocaine dealers caught between old and new sentencing regimes had their cases argued before the Supreme Cour...

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Sensationalizing Drug Use in Pregnant Women: How the Media Perpetuates Racist and Ineffective Policies

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Drug Use, Whitney Houston, Human Rights, Crack Cocaine, Health, Amnesty International, Pregnancy, Racism, Drugs, Children's Health, Politics News
Marianne Mollmann

In this sense, poverty itself is what singles a pregnant woman out for persecution. It is no coincidence that the main focus for drug prosecutions for pregnant women in the United States is crack cocaine, a drug almost exclusively used by the resource-poor.

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Police Find Crack In Suspect's Butt

The Huffington Post | Kyle McGovern | Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Buttocks, Ramon Blair, Florida, Ramon Blair Arrested, Dumb Crime, Martin County, Crack Cocaine, Crack Found in Buttocks, Weird News News

Florida police arrested and charged a 28-year-old man with possession of cocaine after they found crack in, well, his crack, according to Martin Count...

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Man In Court For Crack Pipe Possession Allegedly Caught With Crack Pipe

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Stanley Ramos, Crack Pipe in Court, Dumb Crime, Bradenton Herald, Crack Pipe, Crack Kills, Crack Cocaine, Mug Shots, Florida Crime, Man Brings Crack Pipe to Court, Video, Weird News News

This guy didn't crack such a big smile in his second booking photo for the same crime. Cops said that Florida man, 32-year-old Stanley Ramos, was ...

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Family Struggles With Addiction And Suicide On 'Intervention'

Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Suzon, Drug Addiction, Video, Canada Tv, Intervention, Crack Cocaine, Tv Replay, Reailty Tv, TV News

Only a teenager, Bradley has watched his mother Suzon go from being a classic modern-day soccer mom to a crack addict selling prescription drugs to pa...

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Student Finds Cocaine In Textbook Ordered From Amazon

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: College Students, Textbooks, College Junior, College Textbook, College, Crack Cocaine, Used Textbook, Cocaine, College News

This gives a whole new meaning to "cracking" open a book. Sophia Stockton, a college junior in Olathe, Kan., got quite a surprise when she opened t...

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Trymaine Lee

Ex-Cocaine Kinigpin 'Freeway' Rick Ross Aims To Make Amends After Prison

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 01.29.2012

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Nearly every night that "Freeway" Rick Ross spent in prison, the same nightmare filled his head: He and his crew are sitting around a table piled h...

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Woman Calls Cops On Dealer For Selling Her Sugar

Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Sugar Instead of Crack Cocaine, Dumb Crime, Stupid Criminals, Mug Shots, Crack Cocaine, Suzanne Basham, Suzanne Basham Springfield Missouri, Suzanne Basham Crack Cocaine, Suzanne Basham Called Cops Sugar Instead of Cocaine, Video, Crime News

Don't you just hate it when you don't get what you paid for? Suzanne Basham, 47, was none too pleased to discover the crack cocaine she bought was...

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Ryan Grim

Ron Paul Was Right In CIA Conspiracy Theory

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Iran-Contra, Gary Webb, Video, Cia Cocaine, Cia, 2012 Election, Crack Cocaine, Ron Paul, Elections 2012, Cia Drugs, Ron Paul 2012, Contras, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- According to a former aide, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has long been drawn toward conspiracy theories. Eric Dondero, who...

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Mourning In America (The Crack of the Dawn of the Dead)

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: New-Jack-City, Crack Cocaine, Death-of-the-80s, Black Voices News
Barry Michael Cooper

(This is an essay excerpt from my anthology of investigative journalism and essays titled, "Hooked On The American Dream-Vol.1:New Jack City Eats Its ...

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Crack Cocaine Program In Brazil Gets $2 Billion Investment

AP | Posted 12.07.2011

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BRASILIA, Brazil -- The Brazilian government says it will invest more than $2 billion to curb the spread of crack cocaine in Latin America's biggest c...

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Change In Crack Sentencing Means 12,000 Inmates To Be Released

AP | JESSICA GRESKO and JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Crack Sentencing, Crack Sentencing Early Releases, Crack Sentencing Overhaul, Video, Crack Cocaine, Crack Sentencing Guidelines, Crack, Crime News

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Antwain Black was facing a few more years in Leavenworth for dealing crack. But on Tuesday, he returned home to Illinois, a ...

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John Rudolf

Drug Sentencing Reforms Halt Decades of Prison Population Growth

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Prison Reform, Prison Population, Drug Sentencing, Cocaine Sentencing, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Prison, Incarceration Rates, Crack Cocaine, The Docket, Drug Crimes, Politics News

NEW YORK -- In 1986, as the crack cocaine epidemic ravaged America's inner cities, a Democratic Congress passed legislation dictating harsh mandatory ...

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Kindergartener Brings Crack Pipe To Show And Tell

Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Video, Show and Tell, Crack Cocaine, Michelle Cheatham, Crack Pipe Show and Tell, Michelle Marie Cheatham, Kindergarten, Crime News

Trying to impress your classmates with bizarre and surprising show-and-tell items is fine -- some might say it's even part of growing up. But one Miss...

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Trymaine Lee

Ice-T: Mad About The War And 'Muhf***ers' On Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 11.15.2011

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Editor's Note: The following interview contains explicit language that some readers might find offensive. By now we should all know Ice-T's story. ...

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ACLU & Elon James White: Just Say NO to the War On Drugs

Elon James White | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: War on Drugs, African American Prison Population, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Drug Sentencing Disparity, Drug Sentencing, Prison, Crack Cocaine, African-Americans-Prison, Video, Comedy News
Elon James White

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The Power Of Futile Speeches

Mark Osler | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Anna Diggs Taylor, Supreme Court, Andrew Densemo, Crack Cocaine, Speeches, Public Defender, U.S. Supreme Court, Detroit, Impact News
Mark Osler

Don't worry about the size of your audience; someone like me might be listening. Minds are more open than you might think, and sometimes even the prosecutor gets it.

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Sentencing Disparity On Its Way Out -- And It's About Time

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Unfair Sentencing, Racial Disparities Prison Sentences, Drug Sentencing, Prison Sentence, Crack Cocaine Sentencing, Crack Cocaine, Crack Sentencing, Minorities in Prison, Eric Holder, Fair Sentencing Act, Politics News
Rev. Al Sharpton

Somewhere in a U.S. prison today, a young Black man sits behind bars counting down the days till he sees freedom. He has become hardened and likely more dangerous while his White cellmate was released years prior for virtually the same crime.

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New Crack Cocaine Laws May Apply To Old Cases

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 07.31.2011

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WASHINGTON — A year ago, a drug dealer caught with 50 grams of crack cocaine faced a mandatory 10 years in federal prison. Today, new rules cut ...

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Ice Cream Parlor Owner Arrested On Suspicion Of Selling Crack

The Huffington Post | Tim Stenovec | Posted 07.04.2011

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An ice cream parlor in a suburb of New York City has been shuttered after authorities raided it on suspicion that the owner was using it to manufactur...

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Reagan Turns 100: Media Fawning Ignores His Disastrous "War on Drugs"!

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Needle Exchange, Drug Policy Alliance, Ronald Reagan, Marijuana, Crack Cocaine, Drug War, War on Drugs, Ronald Reagan Birthday, DARE Program, Mandatory Minimums, Prohibition, Politics News
Tony Newman

It's interesting that in all of the press I've read so far celebrating Ronald Reagan, I have not seen one word about his radical escalation of the drug war -- and the devastating effects that had on our society.

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The Moral Urgency of Crack Retroactivity

Julie Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mandatory Sentencing, Martin Luther King, Sentencing Reform, Mandatory Minimums, Crack Cocaine, Politics News
Julie Stewart

President Obama has reformed what many considered the most racially discriminatory sentencing policy in federal law. Now, he should do what is right -- apply the reform retroactively to all offenders.

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Security Guard At Colorado Coalition For The Homeless Busted For Selling Crack On The Job

Face the State | Jared Jacang Maher | Posted 05.25.2011

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A security guard for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is facing felony drug charges for allegedly selling crack, while he was on the job, to th...

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Ending the Drug War: 8 Top Stories of 2010

Tony Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Prohibition, Marijuana, Drug Policy Alliance, California-Marijuana-Legalization, Drug War, President Obama, Drug Czar, War on Drugs, Crack Cocaine, Naacp, Media News
Tony Newman

I feel discouraged about many things happening in our country. But steps towards ending the war on drugs continues to bring me hope and cautious optimism.

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