Too Many Americans Are Incarcerated for Too Long

Published February 13, 2014

Too many Americans are incarcerated for too long

Filed under: New Crack Cocaine Sentencing Guidelines

The bill would reduce mandatory minimum sentences for many nonviolent drug offenses and make retroactive a 2010 law reducing sentences for the possession of crack cocaine, a change that could benefit as many as 8,800 prisoners. The huge … The … Read more on Los Angeles Times

Give Those With Mental Health Issues and Addiction Problems a Break; Elect …

Filed under: New Crack Cocaine Sentencing Guidelines

In spite of the fact he repeatedly told friends he was headed for the final curtain because of drugs, little was apparently done. The suspected OD may have been driven by his recent estrangement from his long-time partner and mother of his children … Read more on PoliticusUSA

Why the GOP Is Ready to Go Easy on Drug Offenders

Filed under: New Crack Cocaine Sentencing Guidelines

In 2010, President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act into law, shrinking the disparity between crack and cocaine sentences from 100–1 to 18–1. In 2013, the re-elected Obama administration started talking more openly about sentencing reform. “The war … Read more on Slate Magazine