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Obama Commutes Sentences for 46 Convicts
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13.07.2015
President Barack Obama on Monday commuted the sentences of 46 federal prisoners convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.
The president cast the decision as part of a push to reform the criminal justice system. Fourteen of the 46 convicts were serving life sentences.
Obama said in a video message,
"These men and women were not hard criminals. Their punishment did not fit the crime."
He added: "I believe at its heart America is a nation of second chances, and I believe these folks deserve their second chance."
Obama plans to address criminal justice reform in a speech Tuesday to the NAACP in Philadelphia. On Thursday, he will visit a federal prison in Oklahoma, the first such visit by a sitting president.
The president cast the decision as part of a push to reform the criminal justice system. Fourteen of the 46 convicts were serving life sentences.
Obama said in a video message,
"These men and women were not hard criminals. Their punishment did not fit the crime."
He added: "I believe at its heart America is a nation of second chances, and I believe these folks deserve their second chance."
Obama plans to address criminal justice reform in a speech Tuesday to the NAACP in Philadelphia. On Thursday, he will visit a federal prison in Oklahoma, the first such visit by a sitting president.
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