Insofar as the system of punishment on which they rely is essentially just, none of the sentencing acts that the institution warrants are unjust (they may, of course, be unwise).
Additionally, the large sentencing disparity between crack possession and cocaine possession still exists in several states despite the implementation of the Fair Sentencing Acts of 2010.
On January 30th the Senate Judiciary Committee sent the Smarter Sentencing Act to the full Senate for a vote.
Congress shifted the crack cocaine punishments for new cases when it passed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010.
Although the Fair Sentencing Act reduced penalties for crack-cocaine possession, it increased them for drug trafficking.
Their scenes — alternately confrontational, adversarial, supportive and flirtatious, often within a matter of sentences — act as ballast to Lowboy's.
President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which narrowed the disparity in punishment between possessing crack and possessing powdered cocaine.
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 addressed a gross inequity in federal sentences by reducing the disparity in punishment for a crime involving crack versus powdered cocaine.
Congress tinkered at the margins of the law but failed to eliminate the sentencing disparity when it passed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010.
