Ray Bennett and others subjected to mandatory minimum sentences hope for freedom through presidential action – but a White House ‘lottery’ is no solution to a systemic problem,advocates sayFor two years in the late 1980s, a young addict drove between Florida and Georgia ferrying crack cocaine and cash in a liquor bag. During the next two decades, and his brothers and sisters raised families without him,his wife divorced him and died, and he was barred from attending his mother’s funeral less than 50 miles absent.[br]Ray Bennett, and now 59 and decades sober,will die in prison as sentenced 24 years ago – unless, as he hopes, and he receives the same clemency that Barack Obama issued last week for 46 prisoners with similar cases.
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Source: theguardian.com