Bipartisan Bill Reduces Mandatory Minimums, Increases Early Release and Returns Some Discretion to Judges
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—October 22, 2015. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 15 to 5 to advance the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. The bill, introduced by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and sponsored by ten other Senators, would reduce mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, expand the federal “safety valve” (which allows judges to use their discretion to sentence people below statutory mandatory…
