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What do we mean to be achieving with these drug laws. >> karen, that's a good point. you can't avoid the racial component. blacks, 20 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to life without parole for nonviolent crime. 2001 to 2008 white applicants more than four times likely to receive presidential pardons. this is one of those cases where the president is wading into this issue squarely about race. >> when we talk about sentencing there's one word, afluenza. yes, can you be president if you're a black man who goes to harvard and does these other things. we're talking about a lot of the...

Serving sentencing under rashlgrashlg -- racially biased laws. life without parole for nonviolent offenses, 2,000 in the system. crimes at state and federal levels like being middleman in $10 marijuana sale, siphoning gas from a truck, stealing coats from a store. life without parole, many of them mandatory. those people need relief as well. our report doesn't cover people who got life with parole, serving sentences of 100 years. it's only life without parole for nonviolent offenses. this is a start but there's a fundamental change that has to happen this country with how we sentence people, h...