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Sentenced under old laws that were updated with shorter sentences under what's called the by partisan fair sentencing act of 2010. they have to be nonviolent criminals with no links to organized crime. >> they are not buying my -- that you saw meth or heroin and that's a violent act. they are not buying it it. >> gets sketchy because these will include people who sold drugs and in some cases. >> most people. they are traffickers. >> there is more of it got to serve 10 years in prison. no other serious crime in history. good prison records and no history of violence. then they can qualify to ap...

Used or was small time or wasn't involved in a gang or what, so you got people who may be pretty bad apples in this crop that you want to be extremely careful about releasing. yes, many of -- some of them were oversentenced but i'm hoping this won't be a mass clemency done for political and show reasons. >> let's talk about the convicts who are going to have to meet these requirements. this is the criteria that they are going to have to meet if they are going to qualify to then apply for clemency. serving a sentence under the old law greater than what they would get today. if they are convicte...

Identify who killed kevin rice, arrest him and convict him. >> since kevin rice spent the last seven years on the force investigating crimes that involved gang activity, this was a potential lead. >> my first thought was maybe it was some type of a gang banger who was out there trying to, you know, become a leader type of thing. >> people don't enjoy having police officers interfere with their criminal activity. if they want to sell drugs or gang bang, they just don't take too kindly to that, so you just never know what someone might do. >> detectives went through prison records to see if anyo...

It includes providing legal status for 11 million undocumented workers, reportedly with sharp criticism from many house republicans, some of whom apparently said an election year is not the time to deal with this issue. democrats are saying they see the blueprint as a jumping off point for negotiations. a lot of disagreement among republicans over whether there should be a probationary status for the illegal immigrants or whether there should be a pathway to citizenship. >> and democrats on the side of citizenship. however, they say the fact that there are some republicans who will respect leg...

Nonviolent and have clean prison records should file the paperwork to have their sentences reduced. the federal bureau of prisons will even be telling inmates good the new opportunity. a deputy attorney general james cole says it's the best way of dealing with an exploding prison population. this morning the air force cheating scandal keeps growing. officials say the number of nuclear missile launch officers now under investigation has ballooned to 92. that's nearly a fifth of the entire nuclear force. 40 are suspected of actually cheating on a proficiency exam by getting answers in advance....