Posted on 05/05/2016 1:41:39 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama commuted the sentences of 58 inmates Thursday as part of his ongoing initiative to release federal prisoners who have received severe mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenses.
With this latest round of commutations, Obama has granted clemency to a total 306 inmates, 110 of whom were serving life sentences. Obama has said he will continue granting commutations during his final months in office to inmates who meet certain criteria set out by the Justice Department.
Since the Obama administration launched its high-profile clemency initiative two years ago, thousands of inmates have applied. More than 9,000 petitions are pending.
Here are the names of the 58 prisoners who most recently received commutations, according to the Justice Department:
Jasmine Allen – Bunnell, Fla.
Offense: Conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base; manage or control a residence for the purpose of unlawfully manufacturing, storing and distributing a controlled substance; distribution of five grams or more of cocaine base; Middle District of Florida
Sentence: 235 months imprisonment; five years supervised release (Nov. 5, 2008); amended to 188 months imprisonment (Feb. 29, 2016)
Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on Sept. 2, 2016.
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Bttt
Community Dealer Supporter is more like it.
Exactly. There was a big study done recently about who actually gets sent to prison for drug offenses. It isn’t the innocent hippy peddling a little marijuana to his friends. These are the hard core.
One of these stupid stories talked about some poor guy now doing life because of a “minor drug violation” and how he should be let out as a non-violent offender. (And it was all because he had previously been convicted of other “unrelated crimes,” which somehow the article never identifies.) When you do a little sleuthing, however, you find out he had priors for things like drug manufacturing, armed robbery, assault, etc.
The whole point of “3 strikes” was to stop the revolving door and to get these guys off the streets permanently or to stop their behavior.
And by the way, it works. I was once involved in a case where the environmental opponents hired a rent-a-mob to disrupt the client’s activities. One day I was on the site, and one of the leaders of the rent-a-mob started making all sorts of threats to me. Standing right next to me was an undercover cop; the cop leans over and whispers in my ear not to worry about the guy, he wouldn’t carry through on this threats because he’s had two strikes already (for commercial marijuana cultivation and distribution, ironically) and if he does anything else he was going away permanently—so the guy wasn’t about to step over that line.
Part of his legacy to the country that he hates so much.
By the way, what was the client’s activity the enviros were trying to stop?
The client wanted to do an alternative energy development on some remote rural land that was otherwise prime marijuana cultivation habitat. And so Big Environmental Groups and marijuana interests aligned on stopping the project, arguing that somehow we were going to destroy a pristine natural environment by our actions. (Actually, it was former cow pastures that had gone wild for 50 years because they had stopped running cattle there.)
“That doesn’t make the guy a drug dealer does it?”
Puhlease. These are not drug dealers; they are community organizers.
Someone needs to keep track of when crimes are committed by these folks.
Cannot wait to get this creep out of the White House.
What chaps my butt about this whole thing is the people being cut loose from life sentences. Do you get a life sentence on your first drug offence? No. Now they will be released back into their neighborhoods to deal more drugs.
How many are going to move to Virginia in time to vote for Hillary?
Does having a sentence commuted automatically make them eligible to vote? Seems kind of weird that most of the commutations are made effective Sept 2016...
yes, that would be crack.
Actually I think prison sentences are too long. Prison doesn’t rehabilitate but is a criminal training school for criminals that learn to be better criminals. No I am not a liberal bleeding heart but quite the opposite.
There are certain crimes that must be punished by death. These are rare but if proven beyond a “true” shadow of doubt the ultimate punishment must be extracted. This is not only removing an individual from society that can not exist in normal society it is also vengence. Vengeance is good!
Then there are other crimes. Is it better to put a person in jail for 10 or 20 years or put him in jail for 2 or 3 years of a living hell that will make him be totally mortified of being a criminal again? This living hell does not need to use physical pain. Isolation in solitary works best. There are other methods but they are against the law.
This is simply behavior modification in extremis. It does work and it is brutal to the psych but not the body. It does work.
In prison it is good to be assigned to a work detail on the roads. You get out of your cell and into the light of day and feel the wind on your face, the smell of flowers, grass, leaves and the sounds of birds that are the voice of freedom. In prison you do not have this but you do have the companionship of other prisoners. When in solitary you have nothing and that is a living hell of the mind.
It is brutal, it works.
If this country wants to win the “war on drugs” then drug dealers (not users) should be executed; they kill people and destroy lives and families as well.
As for the length of prison sentences, they are too short for people who have served notice that they are simply too wild & dangerous to be around People That Matter.
Wait! What about OJ?
What I’ve learned from a month long grand jury duty, is that the majority of these a*holes sell their crap around schools. If that’s cool with you, so be it. But the poster has a valid point imho.
I am not convinced Obola got handed money (overseas or “local” (Chicago-DC-Miami-NYV-LA crime-drug money). This is racial (drug dealers and prisoners seen as black-Mexican-illegal alien “victims”), idealogical (he is viciously anti-conservative-Christian-white-moral-ethical positions which hold drug dealers are “bad” or “criminal”), religious (Muslim-black drug dealer again seen as victims of Christian persecution.
ANd, then again, he just wants to “stick it” to the white cops and judges and prosecutors who put these criminals in jail in the first place.
And every liberal press propagandist is going to follow along, going to lead him on, going to cheer him on and reward him for doing this.
But never forget the votes in the black communities that Hillary HAS TO get in November.
A racial/religious breakdown might prove interesting.
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