a decade-plus to go. unless there was a new governor, terry mcauliffe in office now. so rosenfield renewed his appeal for clemency. though he was well aware that a tiny percentage of such petitions are ever granted. and as month after month went by, it wasn t clear what, if anything, was happening. what s disturbing about the clemency process is that it s secretive. what rosenfield didn t know is that this time it was different. the governor in fact ordered a new investigation. just before christmas 2015, we were there when the call came from the governor s office. carlos, it s steve. there it was. finally, the words he had been hoping to hear year after year after year. robert davis was about to be set free. i m elated. just in time for the holidays. today is robert s mother s
terry mcauliffe in office now so rosenfield renewed his appeal for clemency but well aware a tiny percentage of such petitions are ever granted and as month after month went by, it wasn t clear what if anything was happening. what s disturbing about the clemency process is it s secretive. what rosenfield didn t know is this time, it was different. the governor ordered a new investigation. law offices. just before christmas 2015, we were there when the call came from the governor s office. hey, carlos. it s steve. there it was. finally. the words he d been hoping to hear year after year after year. robert davis was about to be set free. i m elated. just in time for the holidays. today is robert s mother s birthday. come on, sandy, pick up. it s steve.
there was a new governor. terry mcauliffe in office now so rosenfield renewed his appeal for clemency but well aware a tiny percentage of such petitions are ever granted and as month after month went by, it wasn t clear what if anything was happening. what s disturbing about the clemency process is it s secretive. what rosenfield didn t know is this time, it was different. the governor ordered a new investigation. law offices. just before christmas 2015, we were there when the call came from the governor s office. hey, carlos. it s steve. there it was. finally. the words he d been hoping to hear year after year after year. robert davis was about to be set free. i m elated. just in time for the holidays. today is robert s mother s birthday.
there was a new governor, terry mcauliffe in office now. so rosenfield renewed his appeal for clemency, though he was well aware that a tiny percentage of such petitions are ever granted. and as month after month went by, it wasn t clear what, if anything, was happening. what s disturbing about the clemency process is that it s secretive. reporter: but what rosenfield didn t know is that this time it was different. the governor, in fact, ordered a new investigation. law offices. reporter: and just before christmas, we were there when the call came. the governor s office. hey carlos, it s steve. reporter: and there it was. finally. the words he d been hoping to hear year after year after year. robert davis was about to be set free. i m elated. just in time for the holidays. today is robert s mother s birthday.
president s pardon power here, use clemency as a way to release people stuck in the sentencing disaster that are serving sentences that with a bipartisan agreement they should no longer be serving. he s asked the bureau of prisons to get involved in the clemency process. give us list of inmates. you know them best. who are best suited for this, who have good records in prison. what i think is a little bit surprising for some people is that there are so many current inmates who are trying to get out. danny, you ve been dealing with this for a long time, particularly people locked up in the justice system without a lot of money or ability to fight it. here are the numbers to dafna point. we have an increase in the prison population of 800%.