NAACP Calls for End to Racial Disparities in Sentencing

Commentary

An open letter from Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP:

A bill to end major racial and ethnic disparities in drug sentencing is on the move in the Senate, and we need your help to pass it.

You may already know that there is an enormous disparity between the penalty for possession of crack cocaine and powder cocaine. According to a federal law passed in 1986, a person must possess 500…