Nonviolent federal prisoners don't automatically qualify for shorter sentences if they get drug treatment behind bars despite the existence of a federal law to allow for such relief, a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The court ruled 6-3 that the federal Bureau of Prisons has discretion to reduce sentences or not, based in part on how the prisoner behaved before conviction.
January 10, 2001 at 12:00 AM
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