As Clock Ticks Down, Pressure Mounts on Obama to Free More Drug War Prisoners | Phillip Smith
President Obama has commuted the sentences of more than a thousand federal drug war prisoners, but thousands more have applications in the pipeline. With an incoming Trump administration exceedingly unlikely to act on those petitions, scholars, activists, and at least one US congressman are calling on Obama to expedite clemency efforts while he still can. […]
As Clock Ticks Down, Pressure Mounts on Obama to Free More Drug War Prisoners | The Daily Chronic