The Fair Sentencing Act was passed by Congress in 2010 and was expanded in 2018 to include compassionate release. The original law increased the quantity of crack cocaine needed to trigger mandatory minimum prison terms. Under the Fair Sentencing Act, people caught with five grams of crack cocaine must be sentenced to at least five […]
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