BREAKING: Today, we filed an amicus brief with @NAACP_LDF, @RSI, and @ACLUFL in SCOTUS, arguing the that the First Step Act made all people sentenced under harsh and unfair crack cocaine drug laws eligible for resentencing. aclu.org/legal-document…
This case will determine whether relief is possible for people serving extraordinarily long sentences for crack cocaine offenses handed down under an almost universally condemned law that led to vast racial disparities.
From 1986 to 2010, people convicted for possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine were treated the same as those convicted for possessing 500 grams of powder cocaine.
Approximately 85% of people federally convicted of crack offenses are Black.
Approximately 85% of people federally convicted of crack offenses are Black.
The decades-long war on drugs has disproportionately targeted Black and Brown communities and led to a vast system of mass incarceration, of which the crack cocaine laws have played a central part.
SCOTUS must recognize that Congress has made all people sentenced for crack cocaine offenses eligible for resentencing.
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