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Stephanie Nodd's Fair Sentencing Act (2003)

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Stephanie Nodd spent twenty-one years in prison for conspiracy to sell crack cocaine. Nodd helped set up a crack supplier in Mobile, Alabama, but states that she has never sold crack. Despite playing a minor role, in 1990, she was sentenced to thirty years under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 which set mandatory minimum sentences for cocaine. Nodd was released earlier recently due to the Fair Sentencing Act, which raised the quantity of drugs that required a mandatory minimum sentence as well as lessened the disparity between crack and powder cocaine.1 The Fair Sentencing Act is one of several policies moving away from the harsher acts enacted in the “war on drugs” during the 1980s. However, despite honorable intentions, mandatory minimum

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