Below is a link to an article concerning a recent Supreme Court ruling that could finally lead to the end or at least the complete overhaul of the obviously racist Rockefeller drug laws that have put so many young black and Latino men and women in prison over the course of the past 35+ years for the position of small amounts of crack while their white counterparts have faced nowhere near as heavy sentences for the possession of 100x the amount of cocaine.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/12/10/scotus.crack.cocaine/index.html
UPDATE
PANEL TO MAKE DECISION ON MAKING SUPREME COURT RULING RETROACTIVE. PLEASE READ here
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