President Barack Obama shortened the prison sentences of
111 convicts serving time for drug-related offenses in his second round of
clemency grants this month, White House claims.
Pres. Obama has now granted a total of 673 commutations during
his presidency, more than the number granted by the 10 previous presidents
combined, as he seeks to reform the criminal justice system, it said.
For some of the convicts, the commutations mean they will
serve only half of their original prison sentences. For instance, Sly Stallone
Aikens of South Carolina, serving a sentence of 360 months for using and
carrying a gun during a drug trafficking crime, will now serve only 180 months.
More than one-third of the 673 convicts had been serving
life sentences.
Obama has made reducing the number of people serving long
sentences for nonviolent drug offenses a priority. It is one of the rare issues
where the president gets support from Republican lawmakers.
He launched the clemency program in 2014, inviting
thousands of drug offenders and others to seek early release. It was the most
ambitious such program in 40 years, but it has struggled under a flood of
thousands of unprocessed cases.
The White House counsel, Neil Eggleston, said he expects
Obama will continue to grant commutations through the end of his presidency,
which ends on Jan. 20. But only legislation passed by Congress can
"achieve the broader reforms needed to ensure our federal sentencing system
operates more fairly and effectively," Eggleston said.
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