[dennisw]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is cutting short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 serving life sentences.The White House says it's the largest batch of commutations on a single day in more than a century. Almost all the prisoners were serving time for nonviolent drug offenses.

You get a life sentence for dealing large quantities/say 20lbs/ of poison drugs like heroin and meth plus some firearms charges, plus maybe kidnapping and other offenses.

I would love to see exactly what some of these people were given harsh sentences for. What combination of charges got them locked up? No way was it just drug dealing for most of them.

[Carthego delenda est]

“I would love to see exactly what some of these people were given harsh sentences for.”

As would I, but it seems the list of names hasn’t been released.