The U.S. Sentencing Commission will vote next month on a proposal to allow people serving time in federal prison for certain nonviolent drug offenses to retroactively apply for a sentence reduction.
The proposal is part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s effort to address an overcrowded federal prison system that Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. says is “exacerbated by unnecessarily long sentences” for drug offenses.
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