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December 11, 2024
Broward County State Attorney Harold F. Pryor says he will seek to vacate thousands of convictions of people who bought…
December 17, 2022
With reform stalled in Congress, federal prosecutors were ordered to avoid mandatory minimum sentences for smaller amounts of rock cocaine.
U.S. Supreme Court thegrio.com
June 14, 2021
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that low-level crack cocaine offenders can’t take advantage of a federal law to seek reduced…
Supreme Court At Sunrise In D.C.
May 4, 2021
Those sentenced for having small amounts of crack could be eligible for reduced sentencing under the result of Terry vs.…
Demetrius Flenory
May 6, 2020
Black Mafia leader Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory will not be getting out of prison anytime soon as a judge denied…
Snowfall Cast
July 10, 2019
Damson Idris, Angela Lewis and Amin Joseph from Snowfall discuss effects of the 80's crack epidemic and working with John…
October 30, 2015
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is using a Southern campaign swing to outline criminal justice proposals
January 14, 2015
If Louis Scarcella was considered one of New York’s finest, then the word fine leaves much to be desired. By
November 8, 2014
40-year-old Patricia Spencer is accused of trying to beat her neighbor with a hammer when he would not give her…
December 19, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is commuting the sentences of eight people he said were serving unduly harsh sentences…
October 7, 2013
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — For a dozen years, Theresa Anderson was the queen of Deshler Street...
November 27, 2012
OPINION - President Obama pardoned a turkey for Thanksgiving, but will he do the same for people in his second…
June 21, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says criminals who were arrested but not yet sentenced for crack cocaine offenses should…
May 18, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - A notorious drug dealer who got his start during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and…
April 6, 2012
theGRIO Q&A - You may remember the saga of Kemba Smith, the onetime Hampton University student who in 1995 was…
November 22, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama also granted pardons to five other individuals, including three convicted of marijuana-related offenses, according to…
June 2, 2011
OPINION - There is no question that the U.S. Sentencing Commission should seek to amend the sentencing provisions so as…
June 1, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Holder was testifying before the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which oversees the guidelines that help federal judges sentence…
March 1, 2011
VIDEO - The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare has shut down a Homewood day care facility after the owner was…
November 16, 2010
VIDEO - After a 3-year-old Boston girl complained that her foot hurt, her preschool teacher took off her sneaker and…