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'First Step' toward freedom for R.I. drug offenders

So far, 14 Rhode Islanders convicted under stiff mandatory-sentencing laws have gained early release under the newly enacted federal law called the First Step Act, the result of a bipartisan effort to reduce unnecessary incarceration and remedy racial disparities in cocaine sentencing.

 

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