老澳门开奖结果 Comment on President Obama鈥檚 Commutations and Pardons
WASHINGTON, DC 鈥� The White House announced that the federal prison sentences of 95 people would be commuted. Two people were pardoned. Five of those with commuted sentences were featured in the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 report A Living Death: Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses. The 老澳门开奖结果 is a founding member of , which assists federal prisoners with clemency petitions.
Jeffery Robinson, Deputy Legal Director and Director of the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Center for Justice, had this comment:
鈥淭oday President Obama changed the lives of 95 federal prisoners who had been serving sentences that were too harsh for their crimes. He has given these people and their families the justice and hope they have deserved for so long.
鈥淭housands will remain in prison, trapped by draconian punishments they don鈥檛 deserve, many of them casualties in the failed war on drugs. We encourage the president to leave no one behind.鈥�
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