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Ede4ka [16]
2 years ago
12

How did minimum sentencing laws for drugs disproportionately affect marginalized groups?

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2 answers:
sweet-ann [11.9K]2 years ago
8 0

Minimum sentencing laws on powder cocaine disproportionately affected <u>African Americans</u> because powder cocaine was mostly consumed by people of color.

<h3>What were the effects of minimum sentencing laws?</h3>

Minimum sentencing laws led to African Americans being thrown in prison quite often because they were typically the ones who consumed powder cocaine.

For this reason, people of color were very much affected by minimum sentencing laws which saw a large number of them end up in prison.

Find out more on the war on drugs at brainly.com/question/25780311.

mr_godi [17]2 years ago
8 0

Answer:

During the War on Drugs, the mandatory minimum sentencing law for five grams of crack cocaine was the same as for 500 grams of powder cocaine, which disproportionately affected

African Americans

because powder cocaine was typically consumed by

White people

.

Explanation: :)

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