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Last Prisoner Project Calls on Biden to Grant Clemency to Federal Marijuana Prisoners. The Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to cannabis-related criminal justice reform, has launched A Time To Heal, an advocacy campaign calling on President Biden to leverage his clemency power to commute the sentences of thousands of people unjustifiably incarcerated due to federal marijuana-related violations. The advocacy organization is also encouraging the President to issue grants to the tens of thousands more still struggling because of the collateral consequences of a federal cannabis conviction. President Biden himself has acknowledged that nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime . We re encouraging him to turn his words into action and use the most immediate tool at his disposal to provide this desperately-needed relief, said project director of strategi ....

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