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"The law, which more closely aligns recommended sentences for crack to those for powder cocaine and which was signed last August, didn’t automatically apply to people already imprisoned on crack charges, but members of the commission thought it should."

Have to get those voters, anyway they can...

1 posted on 06/30/2011 3:15:06 PM PDT by Qbert
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See, the gubmint is creating new jobs. The need for crack dealers increases.


2 posted on 06/30/2011 3:20:07 PM PDT by bgill
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More than 12,000 prisoners nationwide who have been convicted of felony crimes related to the possession, sale and trafficking of crack could have their sentences reduced in light of the decision, which piggybacks off the Fair Sentencing Act.

Seems pretty wide open to me.
3 posted on 06/30/2011 3:20:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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Soooo... No more prisoners ?

Got it...wink wink.


4 posted on 06/30/2011 3:20:54 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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Good. Use those extra beds for illegals, identity theives, and Wall Street crooks.


5 posted on 06/30/2011 3:21:52 PM PDT by MovementConservative (Go Mariners! 2012!)
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Great. How many of those people were originally allowed to cop pleas to the possession charges to avoid the costs of trials of their related robbery/murder/rape charges?


6 posted on 06/30/2011 3:24:05 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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Waiting for Willie Horton - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton


7 posted on 06/30/2011 3:24:13 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Isn’t it the Amish who tend to use crack as opposed to powdered cocaine? Or is it Holder’s people?


8 posted on 06/30/2011 3:24:59 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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Actually good. The sentencing disparity was racist anyway. Of course this disparity was asked for by the liberal politicians in charge of the inner cities (read: “black”) where crack use is prevalent.

Somehow, blacks still think liberals are their best friend when quite the opposite is true.


13 posted on 06/30/2011 3:49:09 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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12K more thugs to join obama’s army.


16 posted on 06/30/2011 4:03:21 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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lol

great, this will do wonders for the unemployment rate!

the law of unintended consequences strikes the liberals again!


17 posted on 06/30/2011 4:06:49 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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“New law could free 12K drug users”

That’s great! More crackheads sneaking into the backyard to steal your shovels and garden tools. My wife caught one two weeks ago. By the time I got outside with Mr. Smith, the 50 IQ druggie was high-tailing it at about 80 mph through the bushes.

Then again, in this state you can’t ventilate a burglar for a misdemeanor. All I could’ve done is hop up and down like a madman, waved the pistol around and cracked fat welfare momma jokes.

Too many exacting laws in this state. We need some fuzzy and grey laws that lean heavy in the favor of homeowners who get their shovels stolen by bug-eyed freak cokeheads.


20 posted on 06/30/2011 4:16:39 PM PDT by sergeantdave (The democrat party is a seditious organization that must be outlawed)
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On the heels of a law signed last year by President Barack Obama limiting sentences for crack cocaine offenses, thousands of prisoners for crimes related to the drug will be eligible for early release, the U.S. Sentencing Commission ruled Thursday.


Crimes related to drugs, it seems to me it would depend on the crime, is the crime just using drugs or are they crimes other than drugs?

Well, i don,t know but would like to remind every one, if you get caught not wearing a seat belt, and you happen to have a gun in your car you may be in bigger trouble than the people who use drugs.

I will be honest, i don,t know anything about drugs although i have heard about them since i was in the service in 1955 however i think we really need to use caution about what we tell some one what they can or can,t do.

I quit drinking alcohol many years ago, but if the law enforcement had of been like they are now i might not have quit, i might have kept on drinking just to show them i would do what i wanted.

Also i have heard a law enforcement officer say that the so called war on drugs was more of a danger than the drugs themselves.


22 posted on 06/30/2011 5:47:32 PM PDT by ravenwolf (Just a bit of the long list of proofs)
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Build 2 "Half Way Houses" for the 12,000 crack cocaine offender "victims".

One at 1602 Pennsylvania Avenue DC and another one next door to Sidwell Friends, 3701-3899 Wisconsin Ave NW, District of Columbia.

24 posted on 09/20/2011 2:54:35 PM PDT by dancusa (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. W. Churchill)
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