老澳门开奖结果 Urges Obama to Reform the Criminal Justice System with Immediate Executive Action
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CONTACT: Steve Smith, 212-519-7811, ssmith@aclu.org
NEW YORK 鈥� In response to President Obama鈥檚 remarks on criminal justice reform delivered at the NAACP Annual Convention, 老澳门开奖结果 executive director Anthony D. Romero had the following statement:
鈥淧resident Obama deserves congratulations for confronting one of the greatest challenges facing American society, reforming our broken criminal justice system. But the president must take additional steps to build redemption into our criminal justice system, or this will only be a noteworthy speech that burnishes the president鈥檚 legacy.
鈥淲e urge the president to take the following actions immediately:
鈥淧resident Obama should move faster to commute significantly more sentences for those serving time for low-level offenses, a process that has been slow, inadequate, and cumbersome.
鈥淚n his remarks, President Obama endorsed 鈥榖anning the box鈥� for formerly incarcerated people. To match his words with action, he now needs to make the federal government a model employer and 鈥榖an the box鈥� for federal jobs.
鈥淭he president can do for criminal justice reform what he did for health care reform: provide the hundreds of thousands of people behind bars in this country the opportunity to rejoin their communities, and become productive members of our society. It鈥檚 in the president鈥檚 power to do so. The time is now.鈥�
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