Fair Sentencing Act of 2010

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The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 is a U.S. federal law that significantly reduced the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses and reformed certain mandatory minimum drug penalties.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf United States federal statute
criminal justice reform law
addressesTopic United States federal drug laws
surface form: United States federal drug policy

crack cocaine sentencing
mandatory minimum sentences
powder cocaine sentencing
aimedToReduce racial disparity in federal drug sentencing
alsoKnownAs FSA 2010
amended Controlled Substances Act
Controlled Substances Import and Export Act
federal criminal code sentencing provisions
appliesTo federal criminal prosecutions
federal drug trafficking offenses
branchOfGovernment legislative branch
changedSentencingRatio crack-to-powder cocaine quantity ratio
citationStyle Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-220
codifiedIn Title 21 of the United States Code
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dateSigned 2010-08-03
eliminatedMandatoryMinimumFor simple possession of crack cocaine
enactedBy 111th United States Congress
goal make federal cocaine sentencing more proportionate
reduce excessive penalties for crack cocaine offenses
increasedDrugQuantityThresholdFor 10-year mandatory minimum for crack cocaine offenses
5-year mandatory minimum for crack cocaine offenses
influenced First Step Act
surface form: First Step Act of 2018
jurisdiction United States government
surface form: federal government of the United States
legalArea criminal law
drug control law
sentencing law
levelOfGovernment federal
newRatio 18:1
policyDomain criminal justice
drug policy
presidentAtSigning Barack Obama
previousRatio 100:1
primaryPurpose reduce sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine offenses
reform federal mandatory minimum drug penalties
publicLawNumber Public Law 111-220
respondedTo criticism of 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act crack penalties
shortName Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 self-linksurface differs
surface form: Fair Sentencing Act
signedBy Barack Obama
sponsorChamber United States Senate
status in force
typeOfReform mandatory minimum reform
sentencing disparity reduction
yearEnacted 2010

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Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 relatedTo Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
First Step Act relatedTo Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 shortName Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Fair Sentencing Act
Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 citationStyle Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, Pub. L. No. 111-220
FSA relatedTo Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
subject surface form: First Step Act