[Nachum]

Community Disruptor strikes again.

[major-pelham]

Seems there’s literally nothing stupid the king of buttwipes won’t do. He deserves to be hounded when he leaves for every illegal action.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Well, at least he freed a major coke dealer. Now Obama can get uninterrupted supplies......

[Nachum]

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[kaehurowing]

58 more drug dealers back on the streets.

How many peoples’ OD deaths are they responsible for?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It is long past time for congress to enact ground rules for presidential pardons and commutations. A lot of state governors now have such rules.

[lacrew]

The prisons are overcrowded...so anybody who finds themselves serving a 10 year+ sentence has probably committed multiple offenses, and pled them down, before finally accumulating so many strikes that it was no longer in the judge’s hands.

IOW, these guys are hardened criminals.

[Dilbert San Diego]

President Obama commuted the sentences of 58 inmates Thursday as part of his ongoing initiative to release federal prisoners who have received severe mandatory sentences for non-violent drug offenses.

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I’ve heard there is more than meets the eye with this story.

The key fact which is omitted, is that many of these offenders are in prison based on a plea bargain. Officially and legally, they are in prison for a non-violent offense, HOWEVER, that’s simply the charge they pled guilty to, not necessarily the most serious crime they actually committed.

The impression that Obama and liberals want to give the media and the rest of us, is that there are tons of people in prison for using drugs, and that these individuals committed no other crime. They want us to believe that cops swept up someone smoking a marijuana joint off the streets, and threw them in prison for a long prison sentence, without any justification or reason behind it.

[BenLurkin]

50 grams of Cocaine base

Okay. That’s not crack. Is it?

[LucyT]

Article and comments.

Thanks, Nachum. The soothsayers have predicted this for the past four years.

[BenLurkin]

Selling 5 kilograms or more of cocaine

That doesn’t make the guy a drug dealer. Does it?

[RoosterRedux]

This is just bidness.

The Chicago Outfit (same one that controls Aruba for you old Natalie Holloway freepers) has probably deposited a few mil in Barry's offshore account.

They might have even agreed to a commission on future sales...with unlimited supply of the best toot for Barry and butt-buddies.

[NormsRevenge]

Community Dealer Supporter is more like it.

[I want the USA back]

Part of his legacy to the country that he hates so much.

[Brilliant]

Someone needs to keep track of when crimes are committed by these folks.

[Beowulf9]

Cannot wait to get this creep out of the White House.

[ronnietherocket3]

From the ones I read through, only one or two punishments appeared to be in line with the actual crime. E.g. Jasmine Allen – Bunnell, Fla. was given 25 years of punishment in response to what seems like a charge multiplication scheme. Timothy Antjuan Augustus – Hampton, Va. Was given nearly 23 years for an offense that did not involve actual distribution of drugs. Steven Bernard Boyd – Augusta, Ga. was given life imprisonment for something that did not involve actual distribution of drugs.

Donald Brooks – West Point, Ga. may have done something that warranted life imprisonment.

Someone mentioned that the people were probably arrested for more serious crimes. If that is the case then they should be charged for the more serious crimes and perhaps given a lighter penalty if that gets the plea bargain to happen.

[freedom1st]

How many are going to move to Virginia in time to vote for Hillary?

[martinidon]

Does having a sentence commuted automatically make them eligible to vote? Seems kind of weird that most of the commutations are made effective Sept 2016...

[cpdiii]

Actually I think prison sentences are too long. Prison doesn’t rehabilitate but is a criminal training school for criminals that learn to be better criminals. No I am not a liberal bleeding heart but quite the opposite.

There are certain crimes that must be punished by death. These are rare but if proven beyond a “true” shadow of doubt the ultimate punishment must be extracted. This is not only removing an individual from society that can not exist in normal society it is also vengence. Vengeance is good!

Then there are other crimes. Is it better to put a person in jail for 10 or 20 years or put him in jail for 2 or 3 years of a living hell that will make him be totally mortified of being a criminal again? This living hell does not need to use physical pain. Isolation in solitary works best. There are other methods but they are against the law.

This is simply behavior modification in extremis. It does work and it is brutal to the psych but not the body. It does work.

In prison it is good to be assigned to a work detail on the roads. You get out of your cell and into the light of day and feel the wind on your face, the smell of flowers, grass, leaves and the sounds of birds that are the voice of freedom. In prison you do not have this but you do have the companionship of other prisoners. When in solitary you have nothing and that is a living hell of the mind.

It is brutal, it works.

[JimRed]

A racial/religious breakdown might prove interesting.