I heard more of this story on the mid-day news dump. The primary reason for the pardons was that “too many” blacks had these convictions on their records.
“Equity,” you know.
Smart move
Will save the taxpayers a lot of money
Marijuana usage should not lead to a prison term
The whole state is going to stink now.
Your next democrat president
According to AI it was almost $60,000/yr in 2022 to house inmates in the people’s republic of Maryland.
Excuse me while I post endlessly of certain debt doom while eschewing Maryland saving $1.050,000,000/yr.
fwiw the potheads are the dopes.
I scanned four articles-
none of them had a thing about anyone being released from jail.
They will save nothing.
We’re back to $60,000/yr to house potheads being a good idea to liberals and self acclaimed fiscal conservatives.
No policy change will protect anyone from the wild bats flying overhead....
Hunter Thompson....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89dChsgznw
Hopefully Christian Moore of the University of Tennessee baseball team is not related. “C-Mo” hit for the cycle in a game the other day—only the second time that has happened in the history of the College World Series. The other occasion was in 1956. Christian Moore is also black, but is from Brooklyn, not Maryland.
I’d wager 99% of these convictions were a result of the
prior actual charges being reduced during a plea deal. Now
they claim they were simple MJ related verdicts. Uh NO!
Our criminal justice system is such a joke these days. We
are bending over backwards to reduce the already reduced
charges that were typically for harder sales of narcotics.
Maybe standing out on street corners to make sales wasn’t
such a fantastic idea back in the day.