Justice Department set to free 6,000 prisoners, largest one-time release
Source: Washington Post
The Justice Department is set to release about 6,000 inmates early from prison the largest one-time release of federal prisoners in an effort to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades.
The inmates from federal prisons nationwide will be set free by the departments Bureau of Prisons between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2. Most of them will go to halfway houses and home confinement before being put on supervised release.
The early release follows action by the U.S. Sentencing Commission an independent agency that sets sentencing policies for federal crimes which reduced the potential punishment for future drug offenders last year and then made that change retroactive.
The commissions action is separate from an effort by President Obama to grant clemency to certain nonviolent drug offenders, an initiative that has resulted in the early release of 89 inmates.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-about-to-free-6000-prisoners-largest-one-time-release/2015/10/06/961f4c9a-6ba2-11e5-aa5b-f78a98956699_story.html?postshare=4601444149297022
bemildred
(90,061 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)We make very little provision for former prisoners.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Please?
n2doc
(47,953 posts)hibbing
(10,095 posts)We are sending so many people to prison for drug offenses it is ridiculous. Of course when you privatize prisons and the politicians get their donations, it is hard for these dumb sentences to get changed.
Peace
secondwind
(16,903 posts)friends, neighbors,etc.
I use this site: http://clemencyreport.org/bob-riley-62-gentle-deadhead-serving-a-life-sentence-for-lsd/
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)from the Clemency Project if he isn't one of the lucky ones to be released soon.
[link:https://www.clemencyproject2014.org/|
valerief
(53,235 posts)prison fines.