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There is an increasing perception that we have two criminal justice systems: one for affluent whites and one for racial minorities and the poor, separate and unequal.

CCAR Resolution on "Race and the Criminal Justice System," 1999

We will work with the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the NAACP and other coalition partners to identify and eliminate racial disparities in the juvenile justice system by supporting the enforcement of the Disproportionate Minority Confinement mandate, which requires states to identify and address the different treatment given to ethnic minority youth. We will also continue to oppose the housing of juveniles with adult offenders or in adult prisons.

The sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses persists, with disproportionate impact on African-American defendants. There is currently a 1:100 ratio of the quantities of crack versus powder cocaine that trigger federal mandatory minimum sentences. We will continue to support legislation to end crack cocaine and powder cocaine sentencing disparities, as well as legislation to restore judicial discretion in sentencing first-time offenders.

 

Learn to do good. Devote yourselves to justice. Aid the wronged. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Defend the cause of the widow. - Isaiah:1:17 Justice, justice shall you pursue - Deuteronomy 16 You are not required to complete the work, Yet you are not allowed to desist from it. - Pirkei Avot, 2:21