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New Standards Reduce Crack Cocaine Terms

Federal effort tries to bring parity to drug sentencing guidelines

By Lucas Laursen, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 2, 2007 9:35 AM CDT

(Newser) – Crack cocaine offenders will receive shorter prison sentences under new federal guidelines, which replaced rules that treated a gram of crack like 100 grams of powder cocaine. The rules introduced yesterday reduce the average sentence to 8 years, 10 months, the Times reports, and may... Read full story »

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