Reentry Central is happy to share the following announcement from Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project:
"The Sentencing Project is pleased to announce that the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted today to retroactively apply the amended guidelines resulting from The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to prisoners who were incarcerated under the earlier, harsher 100 to 1 crack cocaine sentencing law. Today’s decision means that some prisoners sentenced before the law went into affect –12,000 people –could have their guideline sentences reduced by 3 years, on average."
The law will go into effect on November 1, 2011.
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