When Justice Doesn’t Add Up
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Wednesday, February 21, 2007 | The Boston Globe
Yesterday’s Philip Morris case overshadowed an equally important matter in front of the Supreme Court, the case of an African American man sentenced to 5 years in prison for felony drug possession of 5 grams of crack cocaine. Had he been caught with the same amount of powder cocaine instead (a form of the drug more favored by affluent whites), he would have been charged with a misdemeanor and sentenced to only 6 months. This case is really about race, and the excessive imprisonment rate for young African American males in a system that punishes them unjustly and selectively, in part via a deep bias built into the structure and design of certain laws…BS
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