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| Changes sought to drug sentencing |
| By The Press-Register |
| Published: 02/28/2008 |
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ALABAMA - As Congress churns with talk of rewriting the nation's drug-sentencing laws, several people with direct experience of the effects -- including Mobilian Dorothy Gaines -- urged lawmakers Tuesday to act. "If God can give us a chance, why can't you all?" Gaines asked rhetorically at a news conference organized by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups as part of a lobbying drive to address the sentencing gap between powder cocaine and crack cocaine. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |

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