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H.R. 265, The Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act of 2009 (18 comments ↓ | 3 wiki edits)
- This item is from the 111th Congress (2009-2010) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.
H.R. 265 would target cocaine kingpins and address sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
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bazaarjew
March 30, 2009, 3:03pm (report abuse)my father is locked up fr this reason and he is serving life for drugs and killers are getting 20 years its not fair and my father needs to be released he has kids and a family to attend to. everybody makes mistakes but we still walk around with our lives so why shouldnt they have theres if threy havent taken anyones. pass the bill, we want our fathers!
BR749
March 30, 2009, 11:49pm (report abuse)Does it take an act of Congress to judge aright? Bureaucracy or Big Brother. An impersonal force dominating the lives of individuals.
valerie
April 8, 2009, 7:16pm (report abuse)my son is serving a life sentence for drug conspiracy, he say, she say.This system isunfair , allowing convictsed felons testialie to get their time reduce. My son made mistakes but it shouldnt cost him his life, he was 25yrs old in 2002, now he's 31yrs old, no children, a family that loves him ve much. How can murderers get 2to5 years and get out,rappist get away scot free. IS THIS FAIR....
Ms. Pink
April 18, 2009, 7:20pm (report abuse)My finance is serving 17yrs for this and he wasnt even caught with drugs on him. The drug were found and his friend and they admitted it, but because he was prior convictions he was sentenced unjustly and unfairly too. I agree that our system is for the murders and child molesters. PLEASE vote on this bill!
sierah1
May 6, 2009, 11:24pm (report abuse)My husband is the feature story in the November Coalition Razor Wire. Please read his story. This is extremely unjust. Go to; november.org ... click on Tony Cartwright's name #12131-084. I am very sick with leukemia. I have only a 5% chance of surviving without a bone marrow transplant. With the transplant I have a 40% chance. I have gone threw extensive chemo for the past 3 months. My own friends don't even recognize me anymore. I have to tell them who I am. My husband worked at the same job for 25 yrs. before this happened to him. I was working 3 jobs 7 days a week before I was diagnosed in January of this year with this horible disease. Now I am on total disability,I live alone because my husband is incarcerated so my sister has been taking care of me. I need my husband home to help me. I have written to everyone many times crying for help. Please, please pass this bill.
Kelly Albert Drayer
July 21, 2009, 11:51am (report abuse)Perhaps stiffer fines levied against whom had responsibility.Underb the exercise of grown adults being violated repeatedly and the local "Brother" group ignoreing the law to create leverage illegally against thoughs not involved but trying to side grab personal property illegally legal.
Toya
August 30, 2009, 11:23pm (report abuse)A guy I know who killed a good friend of mine was sentenced to thirty years with fifteen being mandatory. My bestfriend is facing 27 due to the harsh mandatory minimums. The laws are unjust unfair and shatters the lives of so many who deserve a second chance. I do not understand how we can say the laws of this great land are justice when a murderer gets 30 years and people associated with drugs are getting life sentences. No ifs, no ands, not buts about it. Instead of judging the person we judge the crime. I will continue to pray as long as I have breath in my body that these laws are modified. All we want is justice, fairness, elimination of such a disparity. Is that really to much to ask?
jem
January 5, 2010, 11:02pm (report abuse)The current system,is undermining families.Drugs deserve punishement but the punishements being hand out are maddness. The COs are not allowed to speak to the inmates so they can only speak to other inmates, many of whom are severely depressed and/or with very limited abilities. Of course the mentally ill who present as radical muslums are constantly talking and filling their heads and makeing the world a much more unbalanced place.
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January 7, 2010, 8:57am (report abuse)What really seems to bother all of you is that these scumbags got caught and had to face stiff punishment. That's just too bad. In reality, they should have been shot on the spot. Then the only requirement would have been a hole to throw them in and dirt to cover them up. Certainly would clean a lot of crap off the streets.
RalphK
March 22, 2010, 11:01am (report abuse)I'm really concerned that the democrats have spent too much political capital on healthcare and won't be able to, or want to, enter into a fight over this bill. From what I read there are a number of senators and representatives who are solidly against this bill. Does anyone have any opinions they would care to share on this? I really do worry about this a lot.
Carl Soder
May 1, 2010, 9:14pm (report abuse)Actually, if it was fair ALL drug sentences would be life imprisonment with no parole of any kind. Then we could get at least some of the dealers off the corners and nobody could scream "UNFAIR" because everybody would get the same sentence. Until that happens I will fight against any change in the law that seeks to reduce the sentences given for ANY drug offense. Period.
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June 4, 2010, 8:27am (report abuse)NO! DO NOT PASS THIS BILL. DO NOT GO SOFT ON CRIMINALS.
COMMIT A CRIME - SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.
All Those Opposed
June 8, 2010, 11:44am (report abuse)All law abiding citizens must contact your legislators and tell them you oppose this Bill and you want them to vote against it.
CRTAgain
(logged-in user) June 23, 2010, 9:42pm (report abuse)I don't see how anything good could come from this bill. It appears to me to be focused on allowing a sentence reduction for a group of criminals. This cannot be a good thing for society as a whole. I am wholeheartedly against this.
All Those Opposed
June 25, 2010, 5:22pm (report abuse)All law abiding citizens must contact your legislators and tell them you oppose this Bill and you want them to vote against it.
RK
(logged-in user) July 23, 2010, 1:08am (report abuse)Not a chance for this bill now. Congressfolks will not be taking any chances on losing any votes for something like this.
So sorry, too bad.
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July 28, 2010, 2:59pm (report abuse)VOTE NO!
DO NOT PASS THIS BILL.
DO NOT GO SOFT ON CRIMINALS.
COMMIT A CRIME - SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.
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