U.S. Sentencing Commission Votes to Reduce Guidelines for Drug Sentences

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 10, 2014.  The U.S. Sentencing Commission today voted to reduce sentencing guidelines for certain people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. The amendment would reduce the average sentence for drug traffickers by 11 months, by lowering the drug sentencing guidelines two levels. Attorney General Eric Holder endorsed the change during testimony before the commission last month.

“Our country is slowly but steadily reversing the damage done by the failed, racially biased war on drugs,” said…