The Early Release Of Federal Drug Crime Felons Is Likely To End In The Trump Administration
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Alex Pfeiffer
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9:30 PM 11/23/2016
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President Barack Obama is shown the inside of a cell as he visits the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., July 16, 2015. With Obama is Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) President Barack Obama is shown the inside of a cell as he visits the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., July 16, 2015. With Obama is Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
President Barack Obama has commuted the sentences of 1,023 federal prisoners during his time in office, more than the last 11 president combined, a practice which will almost surely end during President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
The majority of the recipients of these commutations are serious drug offenders, many of whom have used firearms in the process of their activity. On Tuesday, Obama announced the commutations of 79 federal prisoners. One of those dealers commuted, Eric Cornell Foster, was sentenced in 2007 to life in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. Now, Foster will be out of prison in 2018.
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