Justice Department Readies for Unprecedented Campaign to Grant Clemency to Nonviolent Offenders

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration is anticipating thousands of clemency requests from federal inmates imprisoned for drug offenses. The Washington Post reports that the clemencies are part of an unprecedented campaign to create more equity in criminal sentencing by freeing some nonviolent offenders. The initiative will last two years and will involve dozens of…

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Justice Department Seeks to Overhaul Prison Sentences for Nonviolent Offenders

  Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com  Nonviolent criminal offenders may serve less time in jail under a Justice Department proposal aimed at overhauling strict anti-drug laws and mandatory minimum prison sentences, CNN reports. The goal is to give judges more discretion and to offer alternatives to prison, such as drug court. Even tough-on-crime conservatives are climbing aboard,…

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