By Alabama Public Radio
Washington, DC – U-S Senator Jeff Sessions is co-sponsoring a bill that would reduce mandatory prison sentences for crack cocaine. It would also increase mandatory prison terms for powder cocaine convictions. He's joining three other senators who also are former attorneys general. Sessions says they are trying to make the country's drug laws more consistent and fairer. The Drug Sentencing Reform Act would change the formula for how mandatory sentences are calculated. Current guidelines require judges to treat one gram of crack cocaine like 100 grams of powder cocaine when they sentence crack dealers. The proposed legislation would change the ratio to 20-to-one.