The New York Times reports, At Long Last, A Measure of Justice for Some Drug Offenders, that more than 1000 federal inmates have had their sentences reduced and been released as a result of the First Step Act enacted last December. Nearly all of these individuals had been sentenced to draconian and morally wrong sentences involving crack cocaine offenses.
An example is this Order by the United States District Court sitting in Covington, Ky.
It is a step but only a first step.
