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Essence.com interviews Genarlow Wilson.
In his first print interview since his release, Genarlow Wilson speaks to Essence.com exclusively about the teen-sex scandal that started it all, his time in prison and what’s next. To read the interview, CLICK HERE.
One night last week while surfing the net, I came across this article:
Since the mid-80s, thousands of black men have been convicted and locked up (many times on first offenses) because they possessed large an amounts of crack under these strict statutes.
It was quickly observed in the drug culture and through prison statistics that whites and Hispanics get busted for powder cocaine three-to-one compared to blacks, but face less jail time under sentencing guidelines for basically the same controlled substance.Currently, there is a 5-year minimum prison penalty for possessing 5 grams of crack (that’s more than an eight ball in the street). While for that same 5-year sentence a defendant would need to possess 500 grams of powder cocaine. That’s a big, drug dealing, bag of cocaine we’re talking about.
Over 5,300 people were sent to jail last year for crack cocaine violations, double the numbers from the early 1990s. But the disparity comes in when you realize that more than 80% of crack offenders are black.
Click here: Supreme Court Looks at Crack Jail Time Discrepancy – Black Voices Blogs
Here’s a hot one off the wire. Do you think people get ideas to do things from watching movies and reading books?
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Oct. 10) — In the 1994 movie “The Last Seduction,” a femme fatale coaxes her lover into killing her husband for money. Prosecutors say a beautiful stripper obsessed with the film followed the script to its murderous end.
Mechele Linehan, 34, is on trial on charges she masterminded the decade-old slaying of her fiance in hopes of collecting $1 million in insurance. To read more…
This has to be one of the most bizarre cases of this decade:
Judge Declares Mistrial in Phil Spector Murder Trial
By Ray McDonald A mistrial was declared September 26 in the murder trial of Phil Spector, after the jury reported a 10-2 deadlock in favor of convicting the … read more
I ran across this article “Adulterers beware – or pay the price.”
Sen. Edgar Espindola said he has proposed a law that would impose fines and enforced community service as punishment for adulterers in an effort to protect family values and shield children from broken homes.
To read more…
