August 6, 2016

Obama grants record clemencies

Democracy Now

The White House says it is the largest number of prisoners granted clemency on a single day in at least the last 100 years. Almost all of those released had been convicted of nonviolent drug crimes.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

After his near eight years of putting record numbers of folks behind bars, this is hardly enough.
A sloppy bit of show business meant to persuade the teeming masses that Barry's wasn't such a nightmare after all---it's good to be the king, PULL*.


*apologies to Mel Brookes

Jenefer Ellingston said...

Now that they are pardoned' ... how many weeks before they are released?