Federal judges across the country have lowered thousands of crack cocaine sentences this year in a massive resentencing effort aimed at narrowing the disparity between penalties for the crack and powder forms of the drug.
A report released last week by the U.S. Sentencing Commission shows that since March, courts have handled 17,168 motions for a reduced sentence and granted 12,119 of them, or 70.6 percent.
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