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The_Fair_Sentencing_Act.pdf
Congressional Record - July 28, 2010
The Second Chance Act (2007)
The Act authorizes grants for the States to establish drug treatment programs that are alternatives to incarceration. It also establishes grants for family-based substance abuse treatment and grants for States to provide drug treatment to offenders in prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities.
For an overview of Federal mandatory minimum sentences, from Families Against Mandatory Minimums, click here.
The 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act
This act established multiple mandatory minimums for drug offenses, including the 5- and 10- year mandatory minimums for drug distribution or importation.
Click here for more information from Families Against Mandatory Minimums.
United States Sentencing Commission guidelines amendement 706 (2007) (Scroll down to No. 706)
This amendment seeks to alleviate some of the effects of the 100 to 1 sentencing disparity for crack cocaine and cocaine powder that is entrenched in the U.S. code.
United States Sentencing Commission guidelines amendment 713 (2007) (Scroll down to No. 713)
This amendment made the change in sentencing guidelines contained in amendment 706 retroactice.
The following panelists appeared Oct. 13, 2009, in a legislative briefing before the House and Senate on “Crack Cocaine Sentencing: Exploring and Examining the Issues.”
- Chris Byrnes, Author of The Federalist Society’s white paper, “Proposals to Eliminate Sentencing Disparities Between Crack and Powder Cocaine Offenses”
- Lisa Rich, Director of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Sentencing Commission
- Pat Nolan, Vice President, Prison Fellowship
- Paul Butler, former prosecutor & Professor, George Washington Law School
- Lawrence Garrison, impacted person
View the briefing here Briefing on C-SPAN 2.
Read a report from the Sentencing Project on the new crack cocaine sentencing guidelines.
Testimony of Gil Kerlikowske, before the House Domestic Policy Subcommittee, on the Office of National Drug Control Policy's budget and priorities for the new administration.
May 19, 2009
In the News
Congressional Testimony Executive Summary
United States Sentencing Commission, Legislative and Public Affairs - 10/31/11
Report to Congress: Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System
United States Sentencing Commission - 10/31/11
House can reduce powder cocaine v. crack sentencing disparity
Washington Post - 7/21/10
Don't Double Down on Mandatory Minimums
Main Justice - 6/2/10
Strange Bedfellows
The Crime Report - 5/19/10
Mandatory sentence created a crisis
Tallahassee.com - 4/23/10
Drug sentencing reform passes House
DenverPost.com - 4/15/10
Non-violent offenders clogging state prisons
Times Tribune - 4/11/10
Harshest sentences still being handed to blacks
Daily Business Review - 4/5/10
Judges begin sentencing crack cocaine offenders same as powder
Dallas Morning News - 4/2/10
Cocaine, crack and questions of fairness
Dallas Morning News - 3/24/10
Act shrinks cocaine disparity
Chicago Defender - 3/24/10
Senate Judiciary Committee agrees to cut disparity in cocaine sentencing
AL.com - 3/11/10
Unreasonable drug sentence
Dallas Morning News - 3/10/10
Bad science and bad policy
New York Times - 3/2/10
Criminal justice reform heads for Senate floor
The Austin Chronicle - 1/22/10
Prisons and budgets
New York Times - 1/3/10
Corrections chief rocks and rolls
Freep.com - 11/3/09
Dose of realism in a drug war
Washington Post and Townhall.com - 10/29/09
Expanded drug treatment program proves more effective than prison
Poughkeepsie Journal.com - 10/27/09
US Prison System Falls Short in Treating Drug Addiction, Study Finds
Science Daily - 9/10/09
Will Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Reform Help Current Cons?
Time Magazine - 8/7/09
Breaking Our Addiction to Prison
Sarastora Criminal Justice Reform - 8/2/09
Momentum builds to equalize cocaine penalties
The Washington Post - 7/24/09
California budget held captive by state prisons
NPR - 7/15/09
New drug czar targets prescription abuse as priority
USA Today - 5/21/09
Gov aims to ease jail time for drug offenders
Boston Herald - 5/07/09
Prosecutors seek elimination of mandatory prison for some drug offenders
Dispatch Politics - 3/24/09
Some find hope for a shift in drug policy
The New York Times - 2/15/09
For addicts, staying clean is a constant struggle
Dayton Daily News - 2/09/09
Drug treatment trimming Idaho prison growth
The Spokesman-Review - 1/19/09
Editorial: Drug courts must survive
The Roanoke Times - 1/20/09
Drug court says it will keep going
The Roanoke Times - 1/14/09
Drug abusing offenders not getting the treatment they need in the criminal justice system
NIH News - 1/13/09
McHenry county works to set up a drug court
Chicago Tribune - 1/08/09
W.Va. Counties Launch Drug Courts
The Intelligencer: Wheeling News-Register - 1/06/09
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