Louisiana's outgoing anti-prison Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards pardons 56 inmates - including 40 MURDERERS - after shortening sentences and increasing paroles in a bid to lose the state's position as the country's biggest jailer
John Bel Edwards, who will leave office in January, has pardoned 56 people in the last three months, in a bid to reduce the massive prison population. Among those freed are 40 murderers.
Source: dailymail.co.uk