Security Debrief contributor Asa Hutchinson teams with former Congressman J.C. Watts to publish an op-ed in the Washington Times calling for retroactive application of more equitable sentences between crack and powder cocaine.

“The truth is that for years our legal system has enforced an unfair approach to sentencing of federal crack cocaine offenders. The attorney general’s approach will perpetuate this unfairness. As Judge Reggie Walton, who represents the Federal Judicial Conference, said, ‘I just don’t see how it’s fair that someone sentenced on October 30th gets a certain sentence when someone sentenced on November 1 gets another.’”