The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences. The commission, which ...

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The U.S. Sentencing Commission met June 1 to consider applying revised sentencing guidelines retroactively that would reduce the sentences of some of those convicted for violating federal laws against ...

The case hinges on whether possession of a small amount of crack cocaine is covered by the First Step Act’s retroactive reduction of some prison sentences. The U.S. Supreme Court. (Jack ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Buoyed by a Supreme Court ruling, some 19,500 federal inmates and their families, most of them black, are hoping the U.S. Sentencing Commission is ready to make its recent easing of ...

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled against a Florida man who sought to have his sentence for a low-level drug crime reduced, holding that a bipartisan push in Congress in 2018 to ease such ...

Today, Hamedah Hasan can finally apply for her freedom. Hamedah has been locked up for 18 years serving a prison sentence she never deserved. When she was 21 years old, she and her two daughters ...