Obama commutes sentences of drug offenders

[JURIST] President Barack Obama [official website] on Thursday commuted [press release] the sentences of eight inmates currently serving lengthly prison terms for crack cocaine offenses, citing the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (FSA) [text, PDF]. The FSA reduced significant disparities in convictions of drug offenses related to crack cocaine and powder cocaine. The former ratio of sentences passed in 1986 was 100-to-1 for crack versus powder cocaine and the FSA reduced the ratio to 18-to-1 for these offenses. Six of...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/12/obama-commutes-sentences-of-drug-offenders.php

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