A pillar of institutionalized racism during the drug war’s darkest hours, sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine are one reason why the U.S. incarcerates more of its population than any other nation.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announces charges against former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández for cocaine trafficking in April 2022. While Garland took steps toward ending the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine last week, the Justice Department is still engaged in a"war on drugs" ravaging Central America and the lower-income communities across the U.S.
A pillar of institutionalized racism during the drug war’s darkest hours, sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine at the state and federal level are one reason why the United States incarceratesthan any other nation on the planet. In the 1980s and 1990s, powder cocaine was associated with the white and wealthy, while crack carried massive stigma and was associated with poor people and people of color.
The so-called “crack epidemic” invited a brutal, nationwide police crackdown in Black neighborhoods, but when opioid overdoses in white communities began to rise in the 2000s, policy makers changed their tune and
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