MSNBCW Melissa Harris-Perry November 8, 2015
monday more than 6,000 inmates were released from federal prison. now the prisoners were mostly african-american and latino men, all convicted on drug charges and more than half of them convicted in the south. many had already begun transitioning back to their communities by living first at half-way houses or under home confinement. the release comes a year after the u.s. sentencing commission reduced federal sentences for drug trafficking, then decided to applile new guidelines retroactively for people already incarcerated. according to the "washington post," it is the first time a ...