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Anybody who had already been put in jail under the old guideli guidelines. under the sentences now deemed to be unfair and unnecessarily harsh and frankly targeted toward minority populations. so signing that bill, that helped people going forward in terms of not getting those kind of sentences anymore. but it didn't do anything for the thousands of people sentenced under the old guidelines. today, the attorney general, eric holder, announced that the justice department and the white house are working together on new guidelines that will be used to recommend pardons or commutation of sentences...

Applying to get their sentence commuted. but that information was squashed and never passed onto the white house and mr. aaron's application for a commution was rejected. and the guy that recommended that clarence aaron's sentence not be commuted, has not been appointed by president obama but has been there the whole time. the inspector general for the justice department looked into what happened in that case and issued a scathing report about how mr. rogers handled it. after that report and all of the media attention, particularly from the pro public series, clarence aaron did become one of t...

Brother, the president, that the parrot smuggler's sentence should be cut way down. and his sentence was cut way down and he got sprung. bobby kennedy used the parrot-smuggler example as a tale for explaining that sentencing sometimes goes wrong. and he explained that we ought to then use executive clemency. we ought to use the executive power of the presidency to right the wrongs when the justice system cannot. in his time as president, john f. kennedy pardoned 472 people. when lyndon johnson became president he more than doubled the pardons, in 1974, president gerald ford commuted the senten...

16, under president obama, it was one in 39, president obama has used this particular and peculiar presidential power less than any of his presidential predecessors. and if you want to know why it may be important to know about the case of clarence aaron who was in college and introduced a drug supplier to a drug dealer. he also, quote, was present for the sale of nine kimo grams of cocaine and the conversion to crack cocaine. he got $1500 out of the deal, and for introducing the drug dealers, mr. aaron got three life sentences, no possibility of parole. he got the toughest sentence, stiffer t...

Applying to get their sentence commuted. but that information was squashed and never passed onto the white house and mr. aaron's apprication was rejectelricatii. and the guy that recommended that clarence aaron's sentence not be commuted, has not been appointed by president obama but has been there the whole time. the inspector general for the justice department looked into what happened in that case and issued a scathing report about how mr. rogers handled it. after that report and all of the media attention, particularly from the pro public series, clarence aaron did become one of the lucky ...