Joe Biden Frees over 70 People Convicted of Drug Crimes

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Joe Biden Frees over 70 People Convicted of Drug Crimes

Charlie Spiering 26 Apr 2022

President Joe Biden on Tuesday granted clemency to 78 people on Tuesday, using his executive authority to grant three pardons and 75 commutations.

Most of the pardons and commutations went to people in prison for drug crimes, including possession and distribution of drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth, marijuana, according to the list.

“America is a nation of laws and second chances, redemption, and rehabilitation,” Biden wrote in a statement released by the White House.

Biden pardoned three people; former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden, 87 who was sentenced to prison for bribery, Betty Jo Bogans, 51, sentenced for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and Dexter Jackson, 52, for allowing marijuana dealers to use his pool hall for drug transactions.

“Today, I am pardoning three people who have demonstrated their commitment to rehabilitation and are striving every day to give back and contribute to their communities,” Biden said

The president expressed the need for criminal justice reform, freeing those who were serving long sentences for non-violent drug offensives.

Biden said many of the people he pardoned were serving home confinement as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

He also pointed to the bipartisan First Step Act signed by former President Donald Trump as a successful law allowing people to receive lower sentences for non-violent crimes.

“[H]elping those who served their time return to their families and become contributing members of their communities is one of the most effective ways to reduce recidivism and decrease crime,” Biden wrote.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/26/joe-biden-frees-over-70-people-convicted-of-drug-crimes/

[Kamaji]

The question is:  what are the political connections of each of these pardons/commutations to the mid-term elections?

[GtHawk]

The question is:  what are the political connections of each of these pardons/commutations to the mid-term elections?

Sounds like a number of these weren't low level pot dealers but hard drugs that kill and destroy lives dealers, the type that should stay in as far as I'm concerned.

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excerpt:

As part of the effort to address inequities in the justice system, the White House announced new steps to help those reentering society after incarceration, including expanding hiring for formerly incarcerated people. The Biden administration will allocate $145 million to developing "reentry plans" for incarcerated persons, which would connect them to resources, such as jobs, housing and loans upon being released.

Biden said in a statement that "helping those who served their time return to their families and become contributing members of their communities is one of the most effective ways to reduce recidivism and decrease crime."

more
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094755907/reentry-recidivism-biden-formerly-incarcerated-jobs-housing-healthcare-loans

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Friends of Hunter must be friends of Joe?