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Fair Sentencing Act positive model for bipartisan reform

By Torrey Hullum

[Julie Stewart, President of Families Against Mandatory Minimums]: "Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill to reduce the infamous 100:1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses. The Senate approved the bill in March. Today, President Obama finished the job by signing the bill, ending a nearly 20-year campaign by sentencing reform advocates to undo this outrageous inequity in federal sentencing law. The word "historic" gets bandied around quite a bit in Washington, but it fits here. After all, the bill repeals a mandatory minimum sentence - for simple crack possession - for the first time since the Nixon Administration. Put another way, half of the

Full post as published by JURIST - Hotline on August 04, 2010 (boomark / email).