Drug Sentencing Reform

For nearly six years, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has been President Barack Obama’s legal pugilist, relentlessly fighting against racial inequality, defending the Voting Rights Act, and challenging discriminatory state immigration laws. And yet during a recent farewell ceremony, it was Holder who thanked America for allowing him to serve in the position. “I am grateful […]

On Friday, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to make newly instituted guidelines, which lowered prison sentences for most federal drug offensives retroactive in full to all prisoners serving time under the current guideline umbrella. Consequently, around 50,000 drug offenders currently serving sentences will have an opportunity to apply to have a judge review their sentences […]

Why does momentum seem to be gaining for the decriminalization of marijuana use? As reported earlier on NewsOne, ten of 13 members of the D.C. City Council and Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) have endorsed a plan to make small-time marijuana possession a civil, rather than a criminal, offense. Today on “NewsOne Now” with Roland Martin, the host noted that a number […]