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Because the largest number of prisoners of the united states are in state prisons. >> president biden's moves also won't affect the marijuana black market, a major concern for law enforcement and officials across the country. new challenges, growing along with the trend toward e criminalizing marijuana nationwide. >> that was nbc's jacob soboroff reporting. and shake upended too, this could be a big deal, at least politically, with midterms a month away. joining me, now msnbc political analyst fernando armani. president of prediction and fernando international. it was the strange to his podcas...

D.c. president biden calling on the remaining states' governors to take action. we first met steve d'angelo in 2017. he served a federal sentence for marijuana possession in the 1970s, but his case is a rarity. most marijuana arrests and convictions happened at the state level and he says the states are where real reform has to happen too. >> i appreciate president biden's call to the governors to also implement pardons because the largest number of prisoners in the united states are in state prisons. >> reporter: president biden's moves also won't affect the marijuana black market, a major co...

There. joining me now is the chairman of that hearing, georgia democratic senator, jon ossoff. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you so much, sara. thank you for having me. and i think it's important for all of us to imagine that a loved one is arrested, in the case of mr. laughlin, on a nonviolent charge, widesnds up a county jail, is denied the medical treatment they need, it never comes out. thousands of americans die every year in custody, whether in local jails, state prisons, or federal prisons. there is an ongoing humanitarian crisis in custodial facilities across the united st...

Nearly 1,000 people who died in U.S. prisons and jails in 2021 went unaccounted for because of the Justice Department’s failures, according to a newly released bipartisan Senate report.

The town of Susanville — where local officials say they face economic devastation if they lose more than 1,000 prison jobs — sued the state last year.