Inmates Freed After Crack Penalties Are Eased

Antwain Black was facing a few more years in Leavenworth for dealing crack. But on Tuesday, he returned home to Illinois, a free man.

Black, 36, was among the first of potentially thousands of inmates who are being released early from federal prison because of an easing of the harsh penalties for crack that were enacted in the 1980s, when the drug was a terrifying new phenomenon in America's cities.  More   PrisonerPal.com   True Crime Today  Magazine Subscriptions for Prisoners since 1975