-by Kim Jong-chan, political economy reporter
The U.S. Attorney General attempted to reform the 100:1 heavy sentence, a drug criminal justice system, to “end disparity between blacks” in drug crimes.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday directed federal prosecutors to end the imbalance in the justice system that prosecutes criminals with reverse discrimination involving cheap crack cocaine and expensive powdered cocaine, Reuters reported.
The directive, from an internal DOJ memo, is a win for advocates of criminal justice reform, and a victory for black Americans over the 40-year-old criminal policy of 100-to-1 felonies punishing cheap crack, the current drug sentencing system, with 100x felony penalties. Reforms about unbalanced imprisonment.
A key drug justice system reform was Attorney General Garland directing prosecutors to "treat crack cocaine defendants no differently from powdered cocaine defendants" when prosecuting defendants and making sentencing recommendations.
The reform also directed prosecutors to "suspend" charges related to mandatory minimum sentences for certain aggravating factors, such as leadership of an organized crime group.
The Nixon administration of the United States declared war on drugs as the anti-Vietnam War movement grew, and the vulnerable class such as blacks and Hispanics, who were the main users of crack, innovatively lowered the price by simply calling the amount of expensive cocaine mainly targeted by whites. Aimed.
The Republican Party applied the “100 to 1 rule” law to crack, which is often used by the poor, and imposed a penalty for possessing 1,000 grams of expensive cocaine to 10 grams of crack, and imposed a felony sentence as a more dangerous drug crime.
Congress, in the Republican Reagan Administration's 1986 Act Establishing Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Trafficking Offenses, dealt with crack and powder cocaine offenses at a 100:1 ratio, under which sentences convicted of selling 5 grams of crack cocaine were subject to powder He was sentenced to the same sentence as someone who sold 500 grams of cocaine.
In the war on drugs in the US, the Republican Party maintained a 100:1 ratio with hard-line compensation policies for severe crimes that “cheap drugs are highly contagious.
As a result, current drug justice standards in the United States make the mandatory minimum sentence for cheap crack-related offenses 18 times more severe than for expensive powdered cocaine.
The Democratic administration's Justice Department has supported ending this racist sentencing disparity, and a bipartisan congressional group is working on legislation to significantly reduce it.
"Today's announcement recognizes this injustice and takes steps to finally attack the equivalence between powder and crack cocaine laws when there is no pharmacological difference between the substances," Democratic Senator Cory Booker, a legislative sponsor on light sentencing to the drug justice system, said in a statement. "A group of bipartisan lawmakers, including myself, recently reached an agreement on legal changes to be included in the end-of-year funding bill," he said.
Regarding drugs on the 16th, President Yoon said, “The price of drugs includes the cost of manufacturing and distributing them, but if the state crackdown becomes stronger, there will be a risk fee for that. The fact that drug prices are falling means that the state has not cracked down,” he said. “About 10 years ago, it was said that Korea was a drug-free country. said at the inspection meeting on state affairs tasks, he announced the 'clearing of cheap drugs'.
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