Are the drug sentencing laws in America fair?

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Walter Cronkite

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

Drug sentencing "defies common sense and compassion alike."
8/28/2009 5:50:42 PM

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

"It's time to Drop the Rock"
8/28/2009 1:41:19 PM

David Simon

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

"Federal prisons are full of people who got caught muling drugs, and got tarred with the whole amount of the drugs"
8/28/2009 1:33:54 PM

Ted Kaufman (D-DE)

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

"I do not believe there is any justification for treating crack and powder cocaine differently."
8/25/2009 12:32:18 PM

Raymond W. Kelly

Drug sentencing laws in America are fair.

"That's why law enforcement,... oppose the overhaul"
8/25/2009 12:25:07 PM

Andrew Cuomo

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

"The Rockefeller laws are a well-established failure."
1/13/2009 3:57:22 PM

Gary Kamiya (journalist)

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

"An incarceration rate so obscene that almost 1 in 4 of every person behind bars in the entire world is locked up in the United States"
8/2/2008 10:06:17 PM

Kevin Powell

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

"Reduce High Incarceration Rates with sensible sentencing."
7/7/2008 4:59:20 PM

Michael Ian Black

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

"Is our marijuana policy saving us more than the two billion dollars a year it is costing just to keep people locked up?"
7/6/2008 3:46:54 PM

John Stossel

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

"Our rulers make laws to control and punish you and your family for doing the very acts they flaunted in their youth"
5/22/2008 2:20:10 PM

Christine Smith

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

Drugs
2/4/2008 11:11:10 AM

Detroit Free Press

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

Laws show cocaine disparity
12/31/2007 6:07:49 PM

The Kansas City Star

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

Progress in correcting disparity
12/31/2007 6:03:19 PM

Cory Booker

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

Booker favors drug reform
9/7/2007 11:47:00 AM

Russell Simmons

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

Simmons leads coalition to repeal drug laws
3/23/2007 7:33:14 PM

Tim Robbins

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

Remove "draconian drug laws"
3/23/2007 7:32:42 PM

Susan Sarandon

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

"Most people know it's not working"
3/23/2007 7:32:33 PM

US Department of Justice

Drug sentencing laws in America are fair.

Current sentencing guidelines are proper
3/23/2007 7:32:24 PM

The New York Times

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

"Blatant unfairness"
3/23/2007 7:32:13 PM

John Cornyn

Drug sentencing laws in America are not fair.

Co-sponsored a bill that would reduce disparity in prison terms for crack vs. powder cocaine offenses
3/23/2007 10:50:27 AM