Legislation in response to reduce the racial disparity began in the mid-1990s, and culminated in the signing of the FSA. The FSA has been described as improving the fairness of the federal criminal justice system by prominent politicians such as, President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. However, Some members of Congress are opposed to the Act. Lamar S. Smith (R-TX), the top-ranking Republican on the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, has criticized the act and argued against its passage (Bungarner …show more content…
According to some experts it's a long way to go, and it needs to be reformed before it's considered just. One area this is apparent is in drug courts, which have proven to help place low-level offenders into drug treatment programs avoiding federal prison incarceration (Schuster 2010). Many of them treatment facilities have a strict criteria for admission. Many of the cases are ones that a prison term would most likely would not be imposed, with or without the program. School-zone drug laws, imposed with the enthusiastic goal of stopping drug sales to children. Unfortunately its unintended criminal convictions most often arrested for sales between consenting adults (Gertsman