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CQ: Crack Sentencing Scrum Moves to Senate as March 3 Rules Change Nears

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

CQ TODAY PRINT EDITION ? LEGAL AFFAIRS Feb. 11, 2008 ? 8:14 p.m. Crack Sentencing Scrum Moves to Senate as March 3 Rules Change Nears By Keith Perine, CQ Staff A Tuesday hearing before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee is just the latest front in a widening battle between Democrats and administration officials over federal sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine offenses. What?s up next? One possibility is legislation designed to block recent action by the U.S. Sentencing Commission ? action that effectively reduces sentences for crack cocaine offenses. That legislation may not go very far. But the escalating torrent of incendiary rhetoric designed to maximize political gain could have more far-reaching effects ? especially in an election year...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).