The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to make retroactive its recent easing of recommended sentences for crack cocaine offenses, which will allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their sentences. Roughly 3,800 inmates could be released from prison within a year after the March 3 effective date of Tuesday's decision. Federal judges will have the final say whether to reduce sentences.
December 12, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences.
The commission, which sets guidelines for federal prison sentences, decided to make retroactive its recent easing of recommended sentences for crack offenses.
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