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The Crack-Powder Disparity: It’s Time for Justice

Wednesday, March 24, 2021
In 2010, the Fair Sentencing Act reduced the crack-powder disparity in sentencing from 100:1 to 18:1. Lawmakers acknowledged that crack cocaine is no more addictive than powder and is not more likely to cause violent crime. Also true is that lengthy mandatory minimum prison terms... Read More

Retroactivity Needed Now to Right an Unfair Sentence

Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Brian Keys is ten years into a 15-year sentence for selling drugs in a school zone, his first felony. Remarkably, he now has the support of the judge who sentenced him, plus the sheriff of the county where Brian was arrested. Both of them see... Read More

Matthew Rushin’s Mom Just Won’t Quit Fighting

Thursday, October 29, 2020
“If anyone thought I was not going to voice my opinion and that I was just going to let my son become a statistic, they had the wrong mom,” says Lavern Rushin. “They had the wrong mom.” Lavern is the mother of Matthew Rushin, the... Read More

An Unimaginable Sentence

Monday, September 28, 2020
When Darlene Wells and Jesse Dunaway met, it was “empathy at first sight.” She was working as a nurse at the institution where Jesse is a prisoner, and he was working in the staff dining hall. “You get to see these people, day after day,”... Read More

In the Eyes of the Law, First-time Offender Is a Trafficker

Wednesday, September 9, 2020
William Wilder is no kingpin. In fact, he did not even sell drugs. In 2018, he bought 14.3 grams of methamphetamine from a confidential informant. And now he’s in prison for a first-degree felony for trafficking. There is a very, very long distance between Pablo... Read More

Jomari DeLeon: Bajo presión, eligió una decisión terrible

Friday, July 31, 2020
Jomari DeLeon hizo dos ventas de drogas durante el curso de 24 horas, ganando menos que $200. ¿Una reina de droga? De ninguna forma. No obstante, siendo su primer delito fue condenada a 15 años. Ni siquiera el juez quería darle tanto tiempo en la... Read More

Wayne Potee: From Hero to Addict to Prisoner

Friday, January 24, 2020
For Wayne Potee, it all comes down to one day. It was a weekday, and he was working on power lines when he took a bad fall off his truck. He suffered an injury to his rotator cuff that required surgery. Afterward, the surgeon prescribed... Read More

Jomari DeLeon: Pressured Into a Terrible Decision

Monday, December 16, 2019
Jomari DeLeon made two drug sales over 24 hours, making less than $200. Kingpin? Hardly. Yet this first-time offender was sentenced to 15 years. Even the judge didn’t want to give her that much time. And making matters worse, the same crime today carries three... Read More