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"Keep Track of Crack Facts"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post it the title of this terrific web memo published by The Heritage Foundation.  Here is the start of a must-read:  Earlier this year, Attorney General Michael Mukasey predicted that if Congress allowed new guidelines granting retroactive application of lower prison sentences to go into effect on March 3, up to "1,600 convicted crack dealers, many of them violent gang members, will be eligible for immediate release," with 3,800 eligible within the first year.  Proponents of retroactivity accused the Attorney General of trying to scare the public into thinking the new law would be a "get-out-of-jail-free card" for all crack convicts, including career criminals.  They cited Sentencing Commission projections that fewer prisoners?almost none of them repeat offenders?would be eligible for immediate early release...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 05, 2008 (boomark / email).