{"id":2309,"date":"2014-09-01T18:21:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/blog\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2014-09-01T18:21:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:21:17","slug":"largest-us-sentence-reduction-in-history-approved-for-drug-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/occupythecourts\/?p=2309","title":{"rendered":"Largest US sentence reduction in history approved for drug offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/7\/18\/u-s-sentencing-commissionvotestoreduce46000olddrugsentences.html','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly\\&quot; style=\\&quot;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/content\/dam\/ajam\/images\/articles_2014\/07\/sentencing_federal_prison_a.jpg\\&quot; class=\\&quot;thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;a class=\\'embedly-title\\' target=\\'_blank\\' href=\\'http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/7\/18\/u-s-sentencing-commissionvotestoreduce46000olddrugsentences.html\\'&gt;Largest US sentence reduction in history approved for drug offenders | Al Jazeera America&lt;\/a&gt;The federal agency that sets criminal sentencing policies for judges voted on Friday to allow tens of thousands of inmates serving time for drug crimes to apply for reduced sentences, the largest such sentencing reduction in modern U.S. history. 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