Help change the mandatory minimum sentencing and Urge Senators to Support S. 1789, the Fair Sentencing Act of 2009.

The federal government’s original stated goal in punishing crack cocaine offenses so severely was to target high-level drug traffickers. Today, more than two decades after the original enactment of these laws, the goal of targeting so-called drug “kingpins” has failed. In fact, the very opposite has proven to be the rule as mandatory penalties for crack cocaine offenses have been applied most often to offenders who are low-level participants in the drug trade, yet comprise more than 60 percent of federal crack defendants. Per the "ACLU"