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10. But he has done significant work on sentencing reform

Tue Apr 15, 2014, 03:51 PM

Apr 2014

Regarding drug laws - he has worked within his capacity to try to eliminate bias in sentencing laws based upon the "crack baby" scare of times past (which has not proved to be true, in terms of those children's rates of problems related to this scare - I'm not saying people should use crack, but if one form of something is used by minorities (crack), while the other, more expensive form is used by Wall Street (cocaine) - there shouldn't be sentencing discrepancies based upon one's ability to have couriers deliver the more expense product to your office.

http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-cocaine-stories-2012-7?op=1

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