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Drug Offenders Receive Retroactive Sentence Reductions

By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In a major move last week, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to moderate federal sentencing guidelines for drug offenses, and apply the guidelines retroactively. Consequently, more than 46,000 currently incarcerated drug offenders – 73 percent of whom are Black or Latino – will now be […]