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Articles
Attorney General "Ignoring Reality" of Draconian Crack Laws
Addressing Women's Incarceration: A National Survey of State Commissions and Task Forces on Women in the Criminal Justice System
The Sentencing Projects Shares New Insight on Women in the Criminal Justice System
Cracked Lenses: The Visual Exploitation of Crack Mothers
Disenfranchising Felons Hurts Entire Communities
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Bookstore
Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women
Harsh Justice
Crack in America


Documents
New York State Democratic Conference
DPA's Bill Piper's Federal Cocaine Sentencing Laws Testimony
Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Fact Sheet
In re: United States v. Lincoln Brown. Brief of the Drug Policy Alliance and Professor Nkechi Taifa as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant
Connecticut General Assembly Alert
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Fact Sheets
Legislative Proposals for Reform of the Crack/Cocaine Disparity
The Federal Prison Population: A Statistical Analysis
Crack Cocaine Sentencing Policy: Unjustified and Unreasonable


Multimedias
Profiled for Prison: The Selective Enforcement of Drug Laws [Video]
Assembly Public Safety Committee Hearing on AB 125
Myth of Crack Baby [Multimedia]
George Martorano's Appearance on Cultural Baggage


News Summaries
Obama and Drug Policy in 2009
Sentencing Reform Legislation Makes Progress in New Jersey
Momentum for Medical Marijuana and Sentencing Reform in New Jersey
New Jersey Takes First Step Towards Sentencing Reform
Doing What Is Right
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Opinions
Last Shot for a Bush Legacy?
Major Blow Struck Against Racist U.S. Crack Sentencing Rules
Chambers' Arrest Highlights Need for Further Reforms
Congress Must Change Racist Crack Cocaine Laws
No Time to Waste in Sentencing Issue
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Press Releases
NJ Senate Judiciary Committee to Vote Monday on Groundbreaking Sentencing Bill that Would Give Judges the Discretion to Waive Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Some Nonviolent Drug Offenses
Durbin Introduces Bill to End Crack/powder Sentencing Disparity
House Judiciary Committee Eliminates Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
Congress and Obama Administration Embrace Major Drug Policy Reform
Growing Support in White House and Congress to Address Crack- Powder Disparity
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Reports
2008 Presidential Candidates' Platforms on Criminal Justice
Wasting Money, Wasting Lives: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Incarceration in New Jersey
Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States
Disparity by Geography
Years of Life Lost to Prison: Racial and Gender Gradients in the United States of America
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Testimony
Testimony Before the United States Sentencing Commission, Jasmine L. Tyler
Federal Sentencing Laws: U.S. Sentencing Commission Testimony


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