Barack Obama commuted sentences of more than 1,000 in prison for drug crimes

qz.com

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This is a step in the right direction. The war on drugs is an abject failure. I'd like to see him commute everyone that qualifies, i.e. non-violent, excessive sentences, etc. before he leaves office.

Right. A step. I'd imagine that a good number of these should have been pardons. For example. There are over 11,000 people in federal prison for marijuana offenses[0]. Unbelievable.

[0] https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/dofp12.pdf

Does anyone know if these in jeopardy of being reversed by the Trump Administration?

Last paragraph of the article:

> “Clemency is the one administrative action President Obama can take that will not be overturned by an incoming Trump administration,” Jessica Jackson Sloan, director of #cut50, a criminal justice reform group, said in a statement.

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