FAMM Hails New Beginning for Thousands Unjustly Sentenced
Sentencing Reformers Mark First Day of Crack Reform RetroactivityFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 1, 2011Contact: Monica Pratt Raffanel, media@famm.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) president Julie Stewart today celebrated the release of the first round of federal prisoners to benefit from the retroactive application of recently reduced crack cocaine sentences. In August 2010, Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), which reduced from 100:1 to 18:1 the disparity between crack and powder cocaine mandatory minimum sentences. Congress directed