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Ask your doctor about it by name. joining me now is piper kerman who writes about her time in prison in "orange is the new black." maybe you've heard about that, one of the most successful shows out there? and you ban the efforts of prison overcrowding and unfair sentencing. piper, i want to talk to you about the show "orange is the new black." based on your own experience in
Executed in texas this year. the justice department announcing it will release around 6,000 inmates from prison at the end of this month. this is the largest number ever released at one time. officials say the move is an attempt to reduce prison overcrowding and to ease harsh sentences in drug cases. about one-third of the inmates are undocumented immigrants who supreme court's ruling on same-sex marriage. the resolution which was sponsored by a fellow county commissioner said, in part, we adopt this resolution before god that he pass us by in his coming wrath and not destroy our county
The feds are about to release 6,000 inmates nation-wide according to the "washington post" which reports this is the largest everyone-time release of federal prisoners. officials say most of the inmates are in for just drug crimes, not violence. they'll mostly go to halfway houses or house arrest before they're free with supervision. the feds say this is part of larger plan to cut back on prison overcrowding and reduce sentences for some nonviolent drug offenders. critics say releasing so many prisoners at once could cause crime rates to go up. edward snowden the leerker says he's willing to...
I'm very pleased with hitler's last days. children will be engaged if you can get the mnls out of their hands. why didn't the american flag fly half-staff on federal property after the five servicemen were killed in chattanooga? dennis why do you keep hammering mexico is corrupt when the u.s. has allowed millions of undocumented people into the country? mexico is. the drug cartel is allowed to do whatever it wants. while i support case law, there are problems with prison overcrowding and cost among them. right now we have anarchy.
Offenders. i'm sorry, gretchen, i really have a problem with that. talking about a felon with possession of a gun, that's one of the people that he's already commuted. that is not a nonviolent crime to me committed a felony and is possession of a firearm, somebody who is possessing cocaine with attempt to distribute. to me that's a nonviolent offense and that's where people are being commuted. >> right. >> so he's saying look both republicans and democrats have kind of come to this conclusion. >> or some. >> right, that they put too many of these drug offenders in prison. we have prison overcr...