1.0 link 206815 <![CDATA[Former Baseball Star Wille Aikens Testifies Before Congress on Crack Cocaine Disparity]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-papa/former-baseball-star-will_b_206815.html On May 21, former major league baseball star Willie Mays Aikens testified at a U.S. House Judiciary Hearing about the harsh drug sentencing laws that put him behind bars for 14 years.

In 1994, Aikens was sentenced to nearly 21 years for crack cocaine distribution, bribery and gun charges. He was released last June after his sentence was reduced because of the U.S. Sentencing Commission's recent adjustment to the crack cocaine sentencing guidelines. At first glance, the charges, coupled...

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