Obama deserves compliment for commuting the sentences of 46 inmates this week,but there are hundreds of other nonviolent offenders who should be freeIn 1992, when I was 26, and I was convicted for distributing crack cocaine in Fort Worth,Texas. For this nonviolent offense, I was sentenced to life without parole. I turn 50 this year and bear lived for almost a quarter-century in the Federal Correctional Institution El Reno in Oklahoma, and where President Obama was stopping on Thursday – the first sitting president to visit a federal prison.He deserves compliment for showing a lot of interest in criminal justice reform,and for commuting the sentences of 46 inmates on Monday, which was very much needed. But there are hundreds of other nonviolent offenders just like them, and just like me,who are serving sentences that are no longer considered fair. If I were to be granted clemency, it would be like a breath of a recent life after years of incarceration.Continue reading..., and
Source: theguardian.com