Obama Cuts Short Sentences of 330 Drug Offenders in Final Act as President

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In a last major act as president, Barack Obama cut short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes today.

With his final move, Obama brought his total number of commutations granted to a little over 1,700, more than any other president in U.S. history.

During his presidency Obama ordered free 568 inmates who had been sentenced to life in prison.

The final batch of commutations today was more in a single day than on any other day in U.S. history and a dramatic close to Obama's second-term effort to remedy sentences that he said had imprisoned thousands of drug offenders for too long. 

Corrie O'Connor

 

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