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From 1986 to 2010, people convicted for possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine were treated the same as those convicted for possessing 500 grams of powder cocaine. Approximately 85% of people federally convicted of crack offenses are Black. — PolitiTweet.org

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This case will determine whether relief is possible for people serving extraordinarily long sentences for crack cocaine offenses handed down under an almost universally condemned law that led to vast racial disparities. — PolitiTweet.org

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The decades-long war on drugs has disproportionately targeted Black and Brown communities and led to a vast system of mass incarceration, of which the crack cocaine laws have played a central part. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 19, 2021 Hibernated