US: Drug Inmates With Long Rap Sheets Among Those Freed Early
Richmond Register, 11 Oct 2015 - WASHINGTON (AP) - A push to overhaul criminal sentencing is prompting the early release of thousands of federal drug prisoners, including some whom prosecutors once...
View ArticleUS TX: Slow Steps To Freedom
Chicago Tribune, 16 Oct 2015 - A Nonviolent Drug Offender Granted Clemency After 2 Decades Behind Bars Adjusts to Life on the Outside DALLAS - The recently released federal prisoner sat down at his...
View ArticleUS NY: Smokers Get Bolder In A New Era For Marijuana
New York Times, 15 Dec 2015 - It wafts down the pavement, an unmistakable odor more Haight-Ashbury than New York - the tang of marijuana smoke in the city's streets. If the smell (and the...
View ArticleUS: Obama Commutes Sentences of 95, Pardons 2 in Year-End Spree
Boston Globe, 19 Dec 2015 - WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Friday commuted the sentences of 95 prisoners and pardoned two more, part of a broader effort to rethink a criminal justice...
View ArticleUS: 95 Drug Offenders Granted Clemency
Washington Post, 19 Dec 2015 - Third Time This Year Obama Has Commuted Terms Under Initiative President Obama commuted the sentences of 95 drug offenders Friday, more than double the number he granted...
View ArticleUS: In 'Fairness,' Obama Commutes Sentences for 95, Mostly
New York Times, 19 Dec 2015 - WASHINGTON - President Obama ended a tumultuous year in the nation's capital by commuting the sentences of 95 federal prisoners and granting two pardons on Friday,...
View ArticleUS: Obama's Clemency List Brings Joy - And Heartbreak
Washington Post, 24 Dec 2015 - At 9:10 a.m. Friday, the intercom blared at the federal prison here as Weldon Angelos walked the track on this sprawling campus of drab gray buildings in California's...
View ArticleUS IL: Medical Pot Lures Former Law Enforcers
Seattle Times, 28 Dec 2015 - Big Business 'Who Better Would You Want to Oversee Your Compliance Than a Cop?' COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - With fewer than 4,000 approved patients, the nascent...
View ArticleUS CA: Closing A Chapter On Criminal Past
Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec 2015 - With Brown's Pardons, Ex-Felons Have Their Rights - and Peace of Mind - - Restored. SACRAMENTO - Unlike his immediate predecessors, Gov. Jerry Brown has routinely acted...
View ArticleUS NY: Michael J. Kennedy, Patron Lawyer of Unpopular Causes
New York Times, 30 Jan 2016 - Michael J. Kennedy, who as a criminal lawyer championed lost causes and deeply unpopular defendants - including John Gotti Sr., Huey P. Newton and Timothy Leary - and...
View ArticleUS: Drug Inmates With Long Rap Sheets Among Those Freed Early
Richmond Register, 11 Oct 2015 - WASHINGTON (AP) - A push to overhaul criminal sentencing is prompting the early release of thousands of federal drug prisoners, including some whom prosecutors once...
View ArticleUS: Ex-Judge Urges Freedom For Man He Sentenced
Washington Post, 10 Feb 2016 - Now a Professor, He Writes to Obama About Mandatory 55-Year Term A former federal judge in Utah asked President Obama on Tuesday to "swiftly" give clemency to Weldon...
View ArticleUS: Senator: Sentencing Reform Bill Isn't Stalled
Washington Post, 11 Feb 2016 - Despite Recent Setbacks, Utah Republican Says Legislation Has Traction The co-sponsor of bipartisan legislation to reduce some mandatory minimum drug and gun sentences...
View ArticleUS: Drug Inmates With Long Rap Sheets Among Those Freed Early
Richmond Register, 11 Oct 2015 - WASHINGTON (AP) - A push to overhaul criminal sentencing is prompting the early release of thousands of federal drug prisoners, including some whom prosecutors once...
View ArticleUS TX: Slow Steps To Freedom
Chicago Tribune, 16 Oct 2015 - A Nonviolent Drug Offender Granted Clemency After 2 Decades Behind Bars Adjusts to Life on the Outside DALLAS - The recently released federal prisoner sat down at his...
View ArticleUS MA: Life And Loss On Methadone Mile
Boston Globe, 17 Jul 2016 - Last night's needles line the sidewalks at dawn along the blighted blocks where Massachusetts Avenue and Southampton Street meet. People emerge from shelters and halfway...
View ArticleUS: Drug Inmates With Long Rap Sheets Among Those Freed Early
Richmond Register, 11 Oct 2015 - WASHINGTON (AP) - A push to overhaul criminal sentencing is prompting the early release of thousands of federal drug prisoners, including some whom prosecutors once...
View ArticleUS MA: A Boston First: Medical Marijuana For Sale
Boston Globe, 03 Aug 2016 - Young women in pink and powder blue princess costumes handed out cards advertising birthday parties to wide-eyed little girls, while commuters rushed past on bustling...
View ArticleUS MD: An Unorthodox Marijuana Partnership
Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug 2016 - Town of Hancock Joins With Grower of Medical Cannabis The small Western Maryland town of Hancock - population 1,545 - is poised to be a part owner of a medical marijuana...
View ArticleUS: Drug Inmates With Long Rap Sheets Among Those Freed Early
Richmond Register, 11 Oct 2015 - WASHINGTON (AP) - A push to overhaul criminal sentencing is prompting the early release of thousands of federal drug prisoners, including some whom prosecutors once...
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