Government
Jul. 15, 2015
Obama’s prison visit highlights shift in criminal justice reform
Obama's upcoming visit to El Reno Federal Correction Instituion and his pardons of 46 non-violent drug offenders is a presidential first, but experts complain that it comes too late in the President's game to create real change.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
President Barack Obama will become the first sitting president to visit a federal
prison when he visits El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma
on Thursday.
Obama's planned visit, coupled with his decision to commute the sentences of 46 non-violent
drug offenders yesterday, some of whom wer...
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