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Government Starts Cutting Sentences Of Crack Prisoners. Bureau of Prisons Processes 400 Orders

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Government Starts Cutting Sentences Of Crack Inmates Bureau of Prisons Processes 400 Orders By Darryl Fears Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 5, 2008; A02 The federal government said yesterday that it has received hundreds of court orders reducing the prison sentences of crack cocaine offenders in the two days since new sentencing guidelines took effect. A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons could not say how many prisoners have already been released under the U.S. Sentencing Commission's new guidelines, but the bureau has processed about 400 orders modifying prison terms nationwide. Some activists say the guidelines bring a much-delayed sense of equity, but the Bush administration asserts that they will result in the release of violent criminals...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).