Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the federal prison population . I think that we absolutely will. If you look statistically at the profile of drug defendants currently in the bureau of prisons right now, youll see that there are a number of low level nonviolent drug defendants. For example, less than 1 of the defendants in federal prison actually had violence or threatsover violence in connection with their drug offense. Only 16 of them had a weapon. Half of them had little or no criminal history at all and only 7 of them are lead
Disagree with the treaty. We have a very very lengthy treaty and a complex 1994 agreement and then we have the behavior of the Member States themselves. Theres the argument based on the reagan. I have been looking for an opportunity to drive the stake through for some time. That will trump his statement from the secretary of state and fatly to the opposite. They came out with an official view of the reagan administration. I refer here Ronald Reagan may be because i had four president ial appointments. I live here this man and it is important that we not ascribe used to him that would be problematic to the United States. His opinion that is the fee met those six red conditions, we got the treaty, we would be able to move forward. Let me indicate what i suspect what the actual meaning was. If you look at the time line in terms of wind that was actually a decision being made by reagan that he is writing about, the decision is entirely different from what steve is talking about. This is a
Thought to set him free. It was a cruel and unusual sentence. From Rockerfeller Center in new york this is a special july 4th edition of politics nation with al sharpton. Good morning. Im al sharpton. Today a special july 4th Weekend Edition of politics nation. Well be previewing the summer ahead and tackling the biggest questions of 2016 looking at the politics, the polling, and the policies. We start with donald trump. Two weeks before the Republican Convention, is he finally ready to pivot to the general election . Change his tone and scale back his rhetoric . In the past he has vowed to become more, quote, president ial, but he also said hell never change. Im going to be so president ial. Ill be so president ial youll be saying loosen up. Why wouldnt i change . You have a Football Team and youre winning and you get to the super bowl you dont change your quarterback. So im not changing. At some point ill be so president ial that you people will be so bored. I promise you this, i swe
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President Barack Obama granted executive clemency to more than 1,900 federal prisoners, a record. Jesse Webster made the most of his freedom. Three others are back in jail.