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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama Plans Clemency for Hundreds of non-violent Drug Offenders
Now, in his final years in office, Obama has trained his sights on prisoners like Scrivner, and wants to use his previously dormant pardon power as part of a larger strategy to restore fairness to the criminal-justice system. A senior administration official tells Yahoo News the president could grant clemency to "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of people locked up for nonviolent drug crimes by the time he leaves office a stunning number that hasn't been seen since Gerald Ford extended amnesty to Vietnam draft dodgers in the 1970s.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-plans-clemency-for-hundreds-of-drug-offenders--162714911.html
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Obama Plans Clemency for Hundreds of non-violent Drug Offenders (Original Post)
arely staircase
Apr 2014
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ret5hd
(20,518 posts)1. Now if you would only take the...
capitalization and punctuation out, this might actually be readable.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)2. I just posted a much smaller section. I don't know what happened. nt
ret5hd
(20,518 posts)4. Just giving you some sh*t. No prob.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)7. :-) NT
spanone
(135,873 posts)3. k&r...
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)5. Awesome
About damned time.....
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)8. absolutely. best part is that even though the headline says hendred
the story says possibly thousands.
G_j
(40,370 posts)6. good move!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)9. Good.
Why we spend billions every year paying to incarcerate people for things like pot smoking, is beyond me.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)10. President Obama to Pardon/Commute "Hundreds, Perhaps Thousands" of Nonviolent Drug Offenders
President Obama to Pardon/Commute "Hundreds, Perhaps Thousands" of Nonviolent Drug Offenders
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/21/1293503/-President-Obama-to-Pardon-Commute-Hundreds-Perhaps-Thousands-of-Nonviolent-Drug-Offenders
Some background on the 2010 law and related other actions
Chance at Freedom: Retroactive Crack Sentence Reductions For Up to 12,000 May Begin Today
http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/chance-freedom-retroactive-crack-sentence-reductions-12000-may-begin-today
U.S. Orders More Steps to Curb Stiff Drug Sentences
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023701018
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/21/1293503/-President-Obama-to-Pardon-Commute-Hundreds-Perhaps-Thousands-of-Nonviolent-Drug-Offenders
Some background on the 2010 law and related other actions
Chance at Freedom: Retroactive Crack Sentence Reductions For Up to 12,000 May Begin Today
http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/chance-freedom-retroactive-crack-sentence-reductions-12000-may-begin-today
U.S. Orders More Steps to Curb Stiff Drug Sentences
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023701018
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)11. thanks
This will give a second chance to some people whose lives had been taken away from them by the stooopid drug war.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)12. Excellent. Lots of female prisoners will benefit. nt
Cha
(297,655 posts)13. Thanks Obama! Thank you, arely~
Vattel
(9,289 posts)14. If it's true, then he is my favorite president since Kennedy.
(which isn't saying much)
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)15. Reschedule pot nt