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A Christian prison ministry has commended the United States House of Representatives for passing a bill that seeks to eliminate a disparity regarding drug possession penalties.
A Christian prison ministry has commended the United States House of Representatives for passing a bill that seeks to eliminate a disparity regarding drug possession penalties.
A Christian prison ministry has commended the United States House of Representatives for passing a bill that seeks to eliminate a disparity regarding drug possession penalties.
As a champion of criminal justice reform, Sen. Chuck Grassley has set aside partisan politics to make our justice system better. Recently, Grassley’s spokesperson said that the senator was open to supporting the Equal Act, bipartisan legislation eliminating the unjust federal sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. The senator’s willingness to take up sentencing reform is not new. Just months before the landmark First Step Act passed, I met with him in his D.C. office. At the time, he was urging the bill to be amended with significant sentencing reforms, and meeting with ...
Prison Fellowship and FAMM hosted a panel to discuss the crack cocaine disparity in the criminal justice system on March 9, 2021. | Zoom The world's largest evangelical prison ministry organization has voiced support for a Democrat-sponsored bill that could eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and cocaine powder in federal sentencing laws that disproportionately affect black Americans. In a reporter's roundtable on Tuesday, Prison Fellowship partnered with Families Against Mandatory Minimums to discuss the difference between how crack and powdered cocaine are punished in...