According to MSNBC, President Obama has commuted Clarence Aaron’s and 7 others for non-violent drug offenses. All of these sentences were based on the Mandatory Sentence Law.
Clarence Aaron, a non-violent drug offender was sentenced to three life terms when he was 24 years old, will finally be freed after twenty years behind bars.
The law was changed in 2010 when congress passed the Fair Sentences Act in order to make cocaine sentences more equal to crack cocaine sentences. As many of you might no, African Americans were serving more time for crack possession. The 2010 law: “reduced the ratio of crack to powder sentences to 18 to 1 instead of 100 to 1. All of the individuals granted clemency Thursday has served more than fifteen years in prison, according to the White House.”
Read more:
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-rights-decades-old-injustice
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