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H.R. 265, The Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act of 2009 (8 comments ↓ | 3 wiki edits)
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?
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