POSTED: Thursday, June 9th, 2011 at 1:43 pm

BY: KIMBERLY ATKINS, Dolan Media Newswires

The Obama administration is urging the U.S. Sentencing Commission to revise its guidelines to retroactively apply a 2010 law cutting the disparity between sentences for crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses. If adopted, the proposal would allow more than 5,000 inmates imprisoned for crack offenses to seek an earlier release. Earlier this year, the commission amended federal ...