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Government Starts Cutting Sentences Of Crack Inmates
washingtonpost.com 05-Mar-2008
The federal government said yesterday that it has received hundreds of court orders reducing the prison sentences of crack cocaine offenders in the two days since new sentencing guidelines took effect. ... A spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons could not say how...
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