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    Black Man Serving Life Sentence for $20 Marijuana Sale Released From Prison

    A Black man in Louisiana who was serving a life sentence over two bags of weed worth only $20 has finally been freed from prison after 12 years. I didn’t need any further proof that the American justice system is far from just, but a life sentence? For what may have barely been an eighth?…

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    Joe Jurado

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  • President Obama Grants 111 Additional Commutations 

    On Tuesday, President Barack Obama granted commutations for an additional 111 federal inmates, bringing the total number of grants offered up to 325 in the month of August alone—the largest number of commutations ever granted by a president in a single month, the White House reports. Earlier this month, the president had granted more commutations in…

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    Breanna Edwards

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