The vast majority of women targeted under this policy are
crack cocaine users.
Not exact matches
On Tuesday, Liverpool Crown Court heard Stapleton was a habitual
user of
cocaine, heroin,
crack cocaine, cannabis and Spice, who had 108 previous convictions including numerous burglaries, dishonesty offences and drug possession.
«Crime in the streets» was Nixonian code for keeping white people safe from poor minorities, just as «
crack babies» justified draconian prison sentences for inner - city
cocaine users 20 years later (their white suburban counterparts went to rehab).
Both girls had fled their homes, lived on the streets, and were regular
users of
crack cocaine and marijuana.
«Accepting, as I do, that
crack cocaine and methamphetamine are as harmful as heroin to the individual
user, I still find no basis on the evidence before me to conclude that the disparity in sentence is a result of heroin being over-punished, rather than
crack cocaine and methamphetamine being under - punished,» wrote Justice Nancy Spies in a new ruling from the Superior Court.