The U.S. Sentencing Commission, which sets guidelines for federal prison sentences, voted unanimously "to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences." Eligible inmates would receive no more than a two-year reduction. While the commission has made this recommendation, federal judges will have the final word on any sentence reductions. Further information here and here.
Corrections Specialist with the NIC Information Center