Obama Plans Clemency for Hundreds of non-violent Drug Offenders

[arely staircase]

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

[ret5hd]

1. Now if you would only take the...

capitalization and punctuation out, this might actually be readable.

[arely staircase]

2. I just posted a much smaller section. I don't know what happened. nt

[ret5hd]

4. Just giving you some sh*t. No prob.

[arely staircase]

7. :-) NT

[spanone]

3. k&r...

[Tsiyu]

5. Awesome

About damned time.....

[arely staircase]

8. absolutely. best part is that even though the headline says hendred

the story says possibly thousands.

[G_j]

6. good move!

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Good.

Why we spend billions every year paying to incarcerate people for things like pot smoking, is beyond me.

[ProSense]

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

[arely staircase]

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]

12. Excellent. Lots of female prisoners will benefit. nt

[Cha]

13. Thanks Obama! Thank you, arely~

[Vattel]

14. If it's true, then he is my favorite president since Kennedy.

(which isn't saying much)

[IronLionZion]

15. Reschedule pot nt