Feds to Weigh Clemency for Nonviolent Inmates
Feds to weigh clemency for nonviolent inmates
The law also eliminated the five-year mandatory minimum sentence for the simple possession of crack cocaine. “There are still too many people in federal prison who were sentenced under the old regime – and who, as a result, will have to spend far more …
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Obama's action to expand clemency is welcome but insufficient
About 7,000 people are serving federal prison time for crimes related to crack cocaine who would not still be there if they had, instead, possessed or sold powder cocaine. … This week, he began undoing the wrongs caused by those harsh sentencing laws.
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Harley Lawrence's Family Has A Painful Road Ahead, Pastor Says
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/half-head-man-from-famous_n_1279337.html" target="_blank">His flattened skull came, he said, from a car accident he got into while on drugs.</a> "I … Til' the law do us part? This bride chose not to …
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Thousands more eligible for clemency under new rules
… to the president for clemency. Deputy Attorney General James Cole, who announced the details of the plan, said the most obvious candidates for review were those sentenced before a 2010 law that lowered the terms for crack cocaine possession charges.
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