This important forum, which will be held Saturday February 20, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 12 Noon at the Northwest Activities Center, 18000 Meyers, Detroit, MI will feature the Hon. Arthur Burnett who has been appointed by President Barack Obama to review and to make recommendations to revise the current Federal Sentencing Guidelines with respect to the disparities that exist between crack and powdered cocaine, a disparity that most adversely impacts poor and people of color.
Judge Burnett, who is the National Executive Director, National African American Drug Policy Coalition, Inc. and a retired United States Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, will also be joined by Nkechi Taifa, from the Open Society Institute, who is the leading advocate for sentencing reform, and Ms. Kemba Smith, who received a presidential pardon for a crack cocaine sentence from President Bill Clinton.
For more information contact Executive Director Rev. Horace L. Sheffield, III at (313) 283-9587 or at (313) 491-0003.
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