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Do state prisoners who were sentenced in states where there is a similar disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine and powder cocaine have the same benefits available as federal prisoners?

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Do state prisoners who were sentenced in states where there is a similar disparity in sentencing between crack cocaine and powder cocaine have the same benefits available as federal prisoners?

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No, not unless that state that has jurisdiction over the prisoner passes a law which retroactively permits application for sentence reductions and/or reduces the sentences and makes the reductions retroactive. In Arizona, this would require legislative action and the governor’s signature.

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