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They want judges to have discretion in sentencing for all narcotics cases.
Personal bias should not be able to take the full role in sentencing for these sorts of crimes.
Obama and Holder had worked together on criminal-justice-reform efforts, including reductions in sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders.
It also reduces the discrepancy in sentencing for crack versus powder cocaine, which Congress already did back in 2010.
There is still a disparity in sentencing for offenses relating to crack and powder cocaine, chemically identical substances.
The guidelines will provide greater consistency in sentencing for offences that only occasionally come before judges and magistrates.
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The document called for reductions in sentences for nonviolent offenders, noting that incarceration damages a person's economic prospects.
Mr. Obama signed legislation in 2010 to narrow the discrepancy in sentences for offenses involving crack and powder cocaine.
In practice, the ministry estimates the average actual discount in sentences for early guilty pleas would rise from 25%to34%4%.
The president said Congressional Republicans also thwarted his efforts to change disparities in sentences for crack and powdered cocaine.
Those actions were part of the continuing debate over how to narrow differences in sentences for crack and powder cocaine.
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