Obama thinks too many blacks are in federal prisons for dealing crack cocaine. So Deputy Attorney General James Cole has asked defense lawyers to find those blacks and urge them to apply for clemency. I guess I've just been mixed up all these years -- I thought the Justice Department was supposed to try to keep the bad guys in prison -- not send lawyers to help them get out.
At any rate, there were about 30,000 inmates serving sentences for crack cocaine at the end of 2011. If all those guys get their clemency, do you think we'll see a rise in drug-related crimes?
"Quest on to release inmates." The Dallas Morning News; January 31, 2014; p. 8A.
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