Over the decades, Rev. Al Sharpton led marches against the federal 'war on drugs' and New York’s tough Rockefeller Drug Laws. He said the federal measures 'have ruined homes and futures for over a generation.'
, the move amounts to a prosecutorial or administrative fix for disparities that have persisted since the mid-1980s, notwithstanding a partial rollback by Congress in 2010. Garland aides told the Post the new guidelines take effect within 30 days.
“The Justice Department supports elimination of the crack-to-powder sentencing disparity and has testified before Congress in support of the EQUAL Act, S. 79, which would remove that disparity,” Garland’s memorandum states. Sharpton and other activists have long decried the different treatment, and how the drug laws have been applied. A variety ofhave shown low-income Black crack offenders being imprisoned at much higher rates than other racial groups, and receiving longer sentences as well, fueling a mass incarceration that has taken generations of Black men off the streets.
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