obama administration is about to release 6,000 convicts by the end of the month. the washington post reporter horowitz joins us. nice to see you. hi, greta. why are this they releasing all these people? this started last year with the u.s. sentencing commission which is an independent agency which sets federal policy, federal sentences for all kinds of crimes that are federal crimes. and the u.s. sentencing commission decided to, because of overcrowding in prisons. federal prisons are had 0% overcrowded and exorbitant cost and unfairness of sentences from 80 s and 90 s to change the drug policy going forward for future drug offenders and to make it retroactive. they estimated when they did this that 46,000 federal inmates could be eligible. what we re seeing now is the first batch of 6,000 inmates who went before federal judge with a petition, had the petition approved and
obama administration is about to release 6,000 convicts by the end of the month. the washington post reporter horowitz joins us. nice to see you. hi, greta. why are this they releasing all these people? this started last year with the u.s. sentencing commission which is an independent agency which sets federal policy, federal sentences for all kinds of crimes that are federal crimes. and the u.s. sentencing commission decided to, because of overcrowding in prisons. federal prisons are had 0% overcrowded and exorbitant cost and unfairness of sentences from 80 s and 90 s to change the drug policy going forward for future drug offenders and to make it retroactive. they estimated when they did this that 46,000 federal inmates could be eligible. what we re seeing now is the first batch of 6,000 inmates who went before federal judge with a petition, had the petition approved and