Given the recent momentum behind drug sentencing reform, the possibility that 51,000 federal prisoners will be eligible to apply for reduced sentences in November seems ever more likely. Observers in the legal community are debating how the process will work.
Federal Bureau of Prisoners data suggest that nearly half of the nation’s 216,775 federal inmates are serving time for drug offenses, which U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. says has led to overcrowding and a strain on government resources.
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