Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131220:02:28:00
Came too late. t if they had been sentenced under the current law, many of them would have already served their time and paid their debt to society. instead, because of a law that is now recognized as unjust, they remain in prison, separated from their families and their communities, at a cost of millions of taxpayers dollars each year. there are more than 8,000 prisoners in the same boat as the eight people who are ordered free by president obama today. people who would not still be in jail if the laws when they were sentenced as they are now. now, president obama could conceivably free every...