Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Analysis of the Impact of Amendment to the Statutory Penalties for Crack Cocaine

  The memorandum linked below estimates the impact on crack cocaine offenders currently incarcerated in the federal prison system of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 (the “FSA”) if the United States Sentencing Commission (the “Commission”) were to permanently  amend the federal sentencing guidelines to incorporate the statutory changes made by that act and make the guideline amendment retroactively applicable to offenders currently incarcerated in the federal prison system. 

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