3/13/10 - Senate bill would reduce sentencing disparities in crack, powder cocaine cases
The Washington Post
3/12/10 - Mandatory minimum sentencing busts budgerts and bloats nonviolent prison cells
Commentary by Deborah Fleischaker on Mainline Justice
3/12/10 - A vote to change some cocaine sentences
The New York Times
3/12/10 - Senate panel endorses cocaine sentencing bill
Main Justice
3/12/10 - Time for Justice in Sentencing Policy
Commentary, Main Justice
3/11/10 - Senate Judiciary Committee agrees to cut disparity in sentencing
The Birmingham News
3/7/10 - State's sentencing laws flood jails and prisons
The Sacramento Bee, a Viewpoint by Ward Connerly, president of the American Civil Rights Institute.
2/3/10 - Common-sense step to nation's drug laws
The Oklahoman, a Point Of View by West Huddleston, CEO of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.
1/21/10 - New state law reduced drug penalties in school zones
The Bergen Record, NorthJersey.com
1/15/10 - Needed latitude in drug sentencing
Editorial, Herald News
1/1/10 - Allow parole for drug offenders
Boston Globe editorial
12/11/09 - Repeal of mandatory minimums in drug cases clears NJ Senate
New Jersey Star Ledger
11/27/09 - Turkeys, 2. Humans, 0.
Washington Post op-ed (by Molly Gill)
11/24/09 - Debra Saunders: The law professor and the pardon power
The San Francisco Chronicle
11/23/09 - Op-Ed: Cocaine sentencing disparity must end
The Minneapolis Star Tribune (by Julie Stewart and Pamela Alexander, president of the Council on Crime and Justice
11/23/09 - N.J. Senate advances bill reducing mandatory sentences for school zone drug offenses
The New Jersey Star Ledger
11/22/09 - Sentencing nonviolent drug offenders: Sanity in the Senate as lawmakers take a step toward reform
Editorial, The New Jersey Star Ledger
11/21/09 - Editorial: Reforming drug laws
The Record
11/19/09 - Rhode Island eliminates mandatory minimums
Providence Journal
11/18/09 - Senate to take up crime records
The Boston Globe
11/18/09 - A chance for reform in sentencing
The Metrowest Daily News
11/14/09 - America's prison spree has brutal impact
The National Journal
11/12/09 - Sentencing Commission to assess mandatory sentences
The Wall Street Journal
11/12/09 - The cost of incarceration: How conspiracy laws trap women
CityNews Ohio
10/22/09 - FAMM federal legislative director on The Urban Journal
XM Satellite Radio
10/20/09 - U.S. eases stance on medical marijuana
Washington Post
10/16/09 - Senate bill would eliminate cocaine sentencing disparity
The Washington Post
10/8/09 - The curse of mandatory minimums
Tri-State Defender
10/8/09 - Cost of incarceration
The Charlotte Post
9/14/09 - Lawmakers look at changing penalties for crack crimes
Quad-City Times
8/7/09 - Reforming crack cocaine laws, but leaving injustice intact?
Time.com
8/3/09 - Holder: Jail is not only crime solution
Chicago Tribune
8/1/09 - Crack cocaine and American Justice
Editorial, Los Angeles Times
7/25/09 - Cocaine Justice
Editorial, Washington Post
7/24/09 - Momentum builds to equalize cocaine penalties
Washington Post
7/23/09 - Sessions and 'that crack thing'
Politico
7/22/09 - Number of life terms hits record
New York Times
7/09 - Mandatory minimum sentences are "un-American", says FAMM president
Talk Radio News Service
7/14/09 - Former U.S. Attorney Sullivan testifies in favor of mandatory minimums
Mainline Justice.org
7/13/09 - States seek less costly substitutes for prison
Washington Post
7/13/09 - America's jail crisis
Forbes.com
7/11/09 - Closing the Gap: Obama could fix cocaine sentencing
Newsweek
7/9/09 - Judges call on U.S. to simplify sentencing guidelines
Bloomberg.com
7/7/09 - Habitual Felons
Editorial, Winston-Salem Courier Journal, NC
7/1/07 - Crack Laws: Sentencing disparity is increasingly under attack
Editorial, Longview News-Journal
7/6/09 - Structuring Sentences: Jim Webb puts his writerly skills to work in a modest proposal: Reform the nation's prisons -- and drug laws
Washington Post
7/4/09 - In prisoner's wake, a tide of troubled kids
New York Times
6/29/09 - Two judges target cocaine penalties
Washington Post
6/24/09 - FAMM president joins Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice in urging Congress to reform federal sentencing policies
Forbes.com
6/24/09 - Attorney General wants review of cocaine sentences
Associated Press
6/24/09 - Mandatory sentences don't work
Metrowest Daily News, Massachusetts
6/24/09 - Glodis: Now's the time for prison reform
Op-ed by Guy W. Glodis, Worcester County Sheriff
Milford Daily News, Milford, Mass.
6/22/09 - Commentary: For the of my daughter
Essence
6/22/09 - MBA pushes treatment over jail time
WWLP News Channel 22, Massachusetts
6/20/09 - Editorial: Telling the truth about the drug war
Brockton Enterprise, Brockton, Mass.
6/19/09 - A single shot, no one hurt: Why 20 years?
The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.
6/18/09 - A new call for ending mandatory minimum drug sentences
Greater Boston (hosted by Emily Rooney; Bonnie DiToro’s mom a guest)
6/18/09 - Report calls for overhaul of drug crime policies
Boston Globe
6/18/09 - Mass. lawyers push for changes to drug offender sentencing
WBUR
6/16/09 - Sentencing rules are not working
Patriot Ledger, Mass.
6/15/09 - Television interview with Lawrence and Karen Garrison
Channel 9 News, Washington, D.C.
6/3/09 - Sentencing guidelines are not working and need to be changed
Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Mass.
5/31/09 - A state divided over mandatory drug sentences
New Jersey Star-Ledger
5/29/09 - With son in prison for 19 years, mother pushes for sentencing changes
ChiTown Daily News
5/22/09 - Editorial: Reform sentencing to save money, reduce crime
Wicked Local, Duxbury, Mass.
5/13/09 - Holder's comments on race prompt requests for legal help
The Washington Post
5/13/09 - Our Opinion: Prison sentencing reform makes sense
Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Mass.
5/10/09 - Reform sentencing to save money, reduce crime
The Metrowest Daily News, Framingham, Mass.
5/7/09 - Better sense in sentencing
Editorial, The Boston Globe
5/2/09 - Longer sentences for crack crimes spur debate
The Telegraph
5/1/09 - End the cocaine disparity
Boston Globe
4/30/09 - Administration wants crack sentencing issues
Journal Gazette, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
4/30/09 - Editorial: Fairness in drug sentencing
The New York Times
4/30/09 - Shorter sentences sought for crack
Wall Street Journal
4/30/09 - Obama Administration urges equal penalties for crack, powder cocaine dealers
Los Angeles Times
4/29/09 - Alton man asks Congress to change drug law
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
4/29/09 - Make drug sentences more fair
Opinion editorial by John Timoney, chief of police, Miami, Florida, in the Miami Herald
4/29/09 - Justice Department backs plan to eliminate cocaine sentencing disparity
Washington Post
4/29/09 - Justice Dept. seeks equity in sentences for cocaine
New York Times
4/29/09 - Obama supports ending crack vs. cocaine sentencing disparity
Reason Foundation, Opposing Viewpoints
4/29/09 - Obama seeks to change crack sentences
Associated Press
4/28/09 - Fixing the crack in drug policy
Congressional Quarterly
4/27/09 - Editorial: Time to end the crack disparity
Philadelphia Inquirer
3/18/09 - Op-Ed: Time is now for drug law reform
In an Albany Times Union op-ed, Julie Stewart encourages NY lawmakers to take the plunge and reform unjust Rockefeller Drug Laws. Read more
3/8/09 - How much prison time is enough?
FAMM's latest work to improve Michigan's sentencing laws is mentioned in the Herald-Palladium newspaper. Read article
2/19/09 - Report: Mass. sentencing laws not doing the job
The Bay State Banner reports on new evidence that shows Massachusetts mandatory minimums for school zone offenses do not work. Read article
2/15/09 - FAMM op-ed on Lincoln, Obama and clemency
Read Molly Gill's op-ed in the Washington Times on the need for presidential mercy in the form of clemency. Read op-ed
1/3/09 - Police balk at ticketing marijuana offenders
Boston Globe
1/1/09 - New Sentencing Guidelines For Crack, New Challenges
Washington Post
1/18/09 - State inmates convicted on crack cocaine charges are successful at getting years pared from sentences
The Birmingham News
12/24/08 - Bush pardons 19, commutes sentence of meth dealer
CNN.com
12/24/08 - Presidential Pardon for 'Unsung Hero'
ABC News.com
12/12/08 - Bush Pardons Hip-Hop Artist
Austin Chronicle
12/05/08 - Mandatory Minimums, Maximum Stupidity
Reason Magazine
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