President Obama announced the commutation of 98 more federal sentences on Thursday continuing the President's efforts to mitigate the misguided harshness of federal criminal sentencing imposed before reforms in recent years. There are numerous reports in the Washington Post, USA Today, Huffington Post, Bloomberg Politics, and The Hill.
Many of the commuted sentences had to do with crack cocaine offenses, which were reformed some in 2010, many years too late, as I argued in this piece published in 2005, Congress Must Fix Inequitable Drug Sentencing. The President should be lauded for these efforts, as should the volunteer lawyers that are working up the cases for the Presidential review.
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