[Washington Times] The Obama administration is moving toward reducing the criminal penalties for nonviolent drug offenders serving long prison terms to help blunt the rising costs of federal imprisonment and tame the growing racial disparities within the prison population.
The decriminalization of wrong-doing, a long held administration goal.
The move may allow thousands of offenders, currently serving jail time, to apply to get out of prison early, although itÂ’s unclear specifically which offenders would apply and how many applications would be granted.
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The decision to commute sentences of nonviolent drug offenders is only the “first step” in helping to reduce the nation’s growing prison population, said James Cole, deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice, in a speech he gave Thursday in New York.
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