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"...The first step toward eliminating the much-reviled 100-to-1 crack-to-powder-cocaine sentencing scheme will take effect tomorrow, Nov. 1, when federal..."

"...by federal judges, especially those on the United States Sentencing Commission, members of the House Judiciary Committee on July..."

"...After years of discussion and hand-wringing, a U.S. Senate committee on March 11..."

"...Thanks in part to draconian mandatory-minimum sentencing and insufficiently flexible federal sentencing guidelines, our nation's prisons..."

"...was codified, federal lawmakers have finally undone the 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. And without delay,..."

"...bills passed (or failed to pass) in the final hours. All bills enacted by the Legislature remain subject to..."

"...In our ongoing coverage of next year's races for U.S. Con­gress, the last time we checked in with TX-31..."

"...According to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, cities across the country will..."

"...bills, Attorney General Eric Holder supports making new crack sentencing law retroactive, and a bunch of international honchos say..."

"...sentences to punish, and supposedly deter, drug crimes. The U.S. first tried this approach in dealing with the "drug..."

"...in a case styled United States v. Booker, the U.S. Supreme Court made a revelatory ruling: Federal sentencing guidelines,..."

"...It's the 25th anniversary of the federal Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, do you know where your..."

"...The first step toward eliminating the much-reviled 100-to-1 crack-to-powder-cocaine sentencing scheme took effect Nov. 1, with federal sentencing guidelines..."

"...At a meeting of the U.S. Sentencing Commission last week, Judge William K. Sessions III..."

"...Thanks to long-awaited changes to federal crack-cocaine sentencing guidelines, adopted last year by the U.S. Sentencing Commission..."

"...profits for drug cartels who fund violence along the U.S.-Mexico border," he told the Christian Science Monitor. Of course,..."

"...The U.S. Sentencing Commission has voted to close the widely disparate..."

"...The U.S. Sentencing Commission has signaled that it will consider alternatives..."

"...Despite Austin Community College's financial troubles, the school's Business..."

"...limits on what is up for consideration? That's the question before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow when they're..."

"...Obama supports the adoption of a one-to-one crack-to-powder cocaine sentencing scheme, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer told a Congressional..."

"...Roughly 10 months after it was introduced in the U.S. Senate, the Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 on..."

"...and a loss of millions of dollars for the U.S. economy...."

"...with the all-caps "MAGISTRATION" written above, and you'll find yourself in a space that "looks more like a storage..."

"...How does a 17-year-old kid who hasn't shot or..."

"...primary. No, we don't know what Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst meant about the "Iranian cabdriver." Yes, Iranian-Americans have demanded..."

"...spring, in capital murder case McCleskey v. Kemp, the U.S. Supreme Court was called on to address racial disparity..."

"...Quote of the Week"Oh Moses, you stubborn, splendid adorable..."

"...roughly 10 months after it was introduced in the U.S. Senate, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009..."

"...so when I got full-time funding she was, of course, the perfect choice for that. And so we have..."