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Obama Issues Pardons and Commutations

By Jeralyn, Section Obama Administration
Posted on Wed Dec 17, 2014 at 10:11:24 PM EST
Tags: pardons, commutations (all tags)
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President Obama issued 12 pardons and 8 sentence commutations today. Some of the commutations went to those serving life sentences under the old, unduly harsh crack cocaine guidelines.

The full list is here.

These are the first commutations under Obama's new clemency guidelines.

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    How does one get life imprisonment (none / 0) (#1)
    by Chuck0 on Thu Dec 18, 2014 at 04:46:51 PM EST
    followed by period of "supervised release." Seems kinda dumb to me. If you're doing life, how does the "supervised release" part play out?

    and when... (none / 0) (#2)
    by Mr Natural on Thu Dec 18, 2014 at 05:26:5