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prisons across the country are already reporting cases of covid-19 and medical experts say that every single prison is a health disaster waiting to happen. some states believe the solution is not keeping the inmates where they are but finding inmates within the system they can let go. new york plans to release 1,100 inmating being held on parole violations. . in california, some 3,500 state inmates will be released as well. behind this effort is san francisco district attorney. joining me now from san francisco is district attorney chase thank you very much for joining us. first off, what is the effort here, because people are going to think two things one, yes, it s not fair to put prisoners in that scenario, especially ones who don t have a death sentence but it s also scary for
work would deter them from coming according to one dhs official. and today, inmates in oklahoma are going to walk, because of a new law. it reduces the simple drug possession charges and the property crimes of under $1,000 to misdemeanor and giving the offenders serving time for those crimes eligibility for release. the oklahoma parole and pardon board voted unanimously to recommend the sentences of 527 state inmates be commuted. the state officials say it is the largest single day of commutation in u.s. history. joining us is ron mott in taft, oklahoma, where the governor expected to greet an estimated 55 women inmates, and ron, 25% of the inmates recommended for commutation is female, and tell us about the special event at
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secretary sebelius 30 days later that changed the ground rules for which plans could be grandfathered in. that little noticed rule finalized in november 2010 was what the president in his announcement on thursday went back on. and technically with every right to do so since it was an executive branch rule. the argument that oklahoma s attorney general, a republican, made on power play on friday. it was his secretary that created the problems that we have today. she through rule secretary sebelius through her rule did not comply with the statute. reporter: elsewhere hhs has cited the 1995 supreme court decision for the president s actions yesterday. but that case was about the powers and the discretion of the food and drug administration to block the use of certain drugs in lethal injections where state inmates were being put to death. it s hardly an exact or for the administration altogether welcome parallel and all seems destined for further litigation, chris. james, thank you.