I can tell you I have heard from judges from around the country that: If I had known that some jerk in Washington was going to come around and reduce my sentence that I agonized to arrive at. I would have sentenced much more harshly so that the appropriate sentence would have been what was arrived at by the brilliant. wise. ubiquitous jerk in Washington that set it aside too early. This article from April 12 is: "Sentencing Reform Legislation Would Disproportionately Favor Noncitizens." It says: "U.S. prisoner data clearly shows two things. One. the majority of lowlevel drug offenders are serving their sentences in State. not Federal prisons. Two. most of those incarcerated in Federal prison for drug charges are noncitizens. While it may be worthwhile to pursue reform at the Federal level. it will do very little to address the problems identified by proponents of sentencing reform. and it would do almost nothing to reduce sentences for U.S. citizen drug offenders." In fact. on further down it says: "As of April 7. 2016. there were 196.285 prisoners in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. with 46.5 percent of these prisoners91.270sentenced for drug offenses. The percentage of prisoners incarcerated for drugs is just over 21/2 times greater than the State prison population.
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