Transcripts for CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield 201507

CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield July 13, 2015 16:58:00

just to give you details about these offenders, these 46 are all drug offenders, many of them crack cocaine. the white house put out a letter the president wrote to one inmate, to jerry allen bailey who is at a federal correctional facility in jessup, georgia, it says in the letter "i am granting your application because you have demonstrated the potential to turn your life around, now it's up to you to make the most of this opportunity." fredricka, this is astounding, can you imagine being an inmate in a federal penitentiary and you get a letter from the president of the united states commuting your sentence? the white house council neil eggelston, in terms of why this is happening, why did they identify these 46? the they are saying because of today's sentencing guidelines that are looser in terms with dealing with drug offenders than they were, these folks who are having their sentences commuted and prisoners being released, they were sentenced with much

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