Drug Policy Alliance: President Praised; Many Others Deserve Similar Relief; Congress Should Reform Mandatory Minimum Laws
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—December 19, 2013. Today President Obama is expected to commute the sentences of eight federal inmates convicted of non-violent drug offenses involving crack cocaine. Mr. Obama, said the eight men and women had been sentenced under an “unfair system,” including the 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses that was reduced to 18:1 by the Fair…
