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A bill that would have impacted racial disparity in cocaine crimes died in the Senate

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January 9, 2023 National, News from NPR

The Senate failed to advance a bipartisan bill that would have reduced one of the most persistent racial disparities in criminal justice: the punishment for crack cocaine.

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