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"New guidelines cut sentences for 3,000 crack offenders"

"New guidelines cut sentences for 3,000 crack offenders": Lara Jakes Jordan of The Associated Press has a report that begins, "More than 3,000 crack cocaine convicts have had their prison sentences cut since the federal government eased harsh penalties for drug crimes overwhelmingly committed by blacks. A U.S. Sentencing Commission study released Thursday says it is not immediately clear how many offenders have actually been released from custody after having their sentences reduced."

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).