Announcement comes day after the president criticized the war on drugs: ‘For too long we’ve viewed drug addiction through the lens of criminal justice’Barack Obama on Wednesday commuted the sentences of 61 federal prisoners,all of whom were being held on drug charges. This announcement came one day after the president criticized the preceding American policy of engaging in a “war on drugs”, telling a conference on the opiate epidemic: “For too long we’ve viewed drug addiction through the lens of criminal justice.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com