More than 700 prison inmates in Georgia will be eligible for reductions in their sentences for crack cocaine. The U.S. Sentencing Commission will make retroactive the recent rollback of such sentences. Over 19-thousand inmates nationwide are included. Numbers from the Commission’s website show about 299 cases of inmates from Georgia’s middle district would be affected--269 from the Southern district, and 142 from the Northern district. Most eligible could get no more than a two-year cut in prison terms. Federal judges get final say.
