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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Reality Check: U.S. Non-Violent Drug Offenders Incarceration Rate Is Shameful 🌿Reality Check: U.S. Non-Violent Drug Offenders Incarceration Rate Is Shameful
Nearly 6,000 federal prisoners are about to be set free.
It’s part of a new program that is releasing non-violent drug offenders after three decades of policies that have kept them locked up. But is 6,000 barely scratching the surface of what needs to happen?
This is a Reality Check you won’t get anywhere else.
At the end of this month, the Federal Bureau of Prisons will release about 6,000 federal prison inmates who have been locked up for years for non-violent drug offenses.
This will be the largest one-time release of federal prisoner ever. It’s an effort, we are told, to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades.
We’re going to talk about those issues in a moment. But first, how was this decision made?
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