On Thursday, 95 federal inmates received clemency orders from President Barack Obama. The single day total is more than half of all commutations by Obama to date, but criminal justice reform advocates have had mixed reactions to the presidents pace. I am granting your application because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around, Obama wrote in 95 separately signed letters. Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportunity. Someone of Facebook wrote Closing his seventh year in the White House, Obama can count a total of 184 convicts that had their sentences cut short by virtue of his clemency power. However, prior to Thursday, only 89 people had received leniency. Of the 95 cases commuted on Thursday, all but two involved drug crimes, mostly for cocaine or crack possession. Forty of the 93 drug-related cases would have been life sentences. In the two non-drug-related cases, a Texas woman will serve half of her 48-year mandatory minimum sentence for armed robbery, which she began serving in 1992, and a Georgia man will only spend nine years of a 15-year sentence in prison for possessing a firearm with a prior felony. The two pardons went to an Ohio physician convicted of counterfeiting in 2002 and a Virginia woman convicted of aiding and abetting bank fraud in 1991. Pardons wipe clean the persons conviction, while commutations or clemency simply diminish the punishment. The president is granted these powers by Article II Section 2 of the US Constitution.
at this rate he will turn us into a escape from usa prison like movie..[video=youtube;ckvDo2JHB7o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckvDo2JHB7o[/video] with cops in military vehicles pulling us over and harassing us all in one large group.
All Presidents use these pardons. I will opine that those families involved will have a nice Christmas present seeing their loved ones home.
What about Bergdahl, Assange, & Hillary?... Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence JAN. 17, 2017 | WASHINGTON President Obama on Tuesday commuted all but four months of the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the Army intelligence analyst convicted of a 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted Mr. Obamas administration and brought global prominence to WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures.
