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Sunday, December 20, 2015

MERCIFUL or JUST P.R.? "Obama Commutes Prison Sentences For 95 Nonviolent Offenders" : The Two-Way : NPR

Is Obama doing this because he truly cares about prisoners,or about unfair sentences,or is this just public relations to make him appear that way? And at the same time they say some of the guantanamo prisoners he released have returned to their life of terrorism. So we must ask whether this is truly JUST or NOT?
"President Obama has now commuted 184 sentences
total. That's more than the previous five presidents
combined, the White House says in a blog post .
The administration says Friday's commutations are
tied to the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010:..."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/18/460293220/obama-commutes-prison-sentences-for-95-non-violent-offenders