Attorney General Merrick Garland issued new guidance on Friday essentially eliminating the disparity in federal sentencing for the distribution of crack cocaine versus powder cocaine, a policy that ...

U.S. Attorney General-designate Merrick Garland said at his confirmation hearing last week that he supports eliminating the disparity between federal prison sentences for crack and powder ...

Stanley Nelson's big-picture documentary takes the measure of crack as a destroyer, but does it with a social awareness that was missing at the time. In the 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through ...