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The crack retroactivity story in my backyard

By Douglas A. Berman

Another story about the implementation of the new federal crack guidelines can be found this morning in my home-town Columbus Dispatch.  Here are the highlights:The number of crack-cocaine dealers and users who could be released early from federal prison has nearly doubled from initial estimates, local officials now say.  Last year, the U.S. Sentencing Commission announced new, retroactive sentencing guidelines for the drug offenders that could mean early release for 224 federal inmates who were sentenced in the U.S. District Court for southern Ohio, which includes Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati. Since then, a review of offenders' files pushed the number up to 439 inmates, federal public defender Steve Nolder said. And of those, 85 could be released in the next few weeks...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 24, 2008 (boomark / email).