Bipartisan bill will modernize federal drug sentencing policy
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–February 12, 2015. Today, U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) were joined by U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) to announce legislation to modernize federal drug sentencing polices by giving federal judges more discretion in sentencing those convicted of non-violent drug offenses.
With prison populations skyrocketing and about half of the nation’s federal inmates serving sentences for drug…
