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by anjel 1433 days ago
Given the same crime, should justice and sentencing be arbitrary or equivalent? Contextualized to the Nixonian origins of the "war" on "drugs," the US socioeconomic sentencing disparities are the common element linking all drug convictions, from the streets of Baltimore/Camden/Detroit to any one of the Sacklers palatial manors.