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On December 11, 2007, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted in an amendment
retroactively reducing the sentences of crack cocaine offenders effective March
3, 2008, and estimated  the average eligible inmate would receive 27 months off
their sentence. Additionally inmates sentenced before the U.S. Supreme Court's
decision in U.S. vs. Booker on January 12, 2005, are eligible to request a further
sentence reduction based on factors sentencing Judges were unable to
consider before the Booker ruling. This decision came a day after a U.S.
Supreme Court ruling that a federal judge properly considered the disparity in  
sentencing a crack defendant to a term below the guidelines.

The USSC, an independent agency within the federal Judiciary, amended the
Guidelines to lower the base offense level for crack cocaine by two levels. For
example, the penalty for a first-time offender found with 10 grams of crack would
be reduced by two levels, from a range of 63—78 months in prison to a range of
51—63 months. It initially estimated that 19,500 prison inmates might be affected,
but its estimate has increased to nearly 21,000 to account for offenders
sentenced after July 31, 2007, when the initial analysis was conducted.
CRACK COCAINE SENTENCE REDUCTION EXPERTS
1) Those sentenced to a statutory mandatory minimum sentence;
2) Those whose sentence was imposed pursuant to the Career
Offender enhancement where the Career Offender or Armed Career Criminal
enhancement increased the total offense level; and
3) Those whose total offense level was less than 12 or more than 43.
Who's Not Eligible
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Inmate's Eligibility For Sentence Reduction
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