Ketanji Brown Jackson on Crime

	Ketanji Brown Jackson on Crime

On US Sentencing Commission, helped reduce drug sentences

She is also a leading expert on federal sentencing policy, having previously served as vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. While Jackson was on the commission, it retroactively reduced sentences for many crack cocaine offenses in 2011, permitting about 12,000 incarcerated individuals to seek reduced sentences and making an estimated 1,800 inmates eligible for immediate release. It also cut sentences for most federal drug offenders during her last year as a commissioner. Source: Vox.com on Supreme Court nominee , Feb 25, 2022

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