On Wednesday, President Obama shortened 214 federal inmates’ prison sentences, officially breaking the record for the most commutations granted on a single day by a US president.
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Deborah Lucille Blue, Alcoa, was sentenced for distribution of cocaine base, possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, and supervised release violation for distribution of cocaine hydrochloride.
Under the commutation grant, Brown’s prison sentence will expire on December 1, 2016.
Thanks to President Barack Obama, three men from the Valley sentenced for cocaine dealing will be getting out of prison years before they were scheduled to be released. Almost 200 of those prisoners were serving life sentences, including 67 of the felons in the most recent batch of commutations.
Obama has now commuted the sentences for 562 individuals, more than the past nine presidents combined. Administration officials said the rapid pace will continue before Obama’s leaves the White House in January 2017. All of the individuals receiving commutation were incarcerated under outdated and unduly harsh sentencing laws, the announcement states.
The White House said the large number of commutations underscores the need for broader criminal justice reform, which has some bipartisan support but has stalled in Congress.
Obama on Wednesday commuted the sentences of 214 convicts, five of them from the Chicago area. Glass was originally sentenced to 240 months imprisonment; 10 years supervised release.
“These men and women were not hardened criminals, but the overwhelming majority had been sentenced to at least 20 years”, Obama said last year when he pardoned 46 inmates.
According to the White House, it costs $80 billion a year to keep 2.2 million Americans locked up. She will be released two years from now if she enrolls in drug treatment in prison.
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► Samuel Grooms of Clinton Township was serving a life sentence since 2005 for conspiracy with intent to distribute heroin; attempted possession with intent to distribute heroin.
