Cenk Uygur
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Largest Prisoner Release Program In US History Underway
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October 8, 2015
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5:48Now PlayingAt the end of this month the federal government is going to conduct the largest single prisoner release program in the history of the United States. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (Think Tank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"At the end of this month, the government will release 6,000 federal prisoners over three days — the biggest prisoner release in United States history...
An independent federal commission has already been working to guide judges toward shorter sentences for drug offenders. This fall's prisoner release is a matter of fairness: the result of the commission's decision that just because someone was sentenced to a long prison term during the peak of the tough-on-crime era, he shouldn't automatically have to serve more time than he'd get if he were sentenced today. It's also a reminder that people throughout the criminal justice system are taking a hard look at incarceration and trying to reduce it — and that the biggest changes aren't necessarily the highest-profile ones, or the most politically contested.”*
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