You may remember that Real Housewife of Atlanta Phaedra Parks went through a lot when her husband, Apollo Nida, was sent off to federal prison for a long…
President Obama To Set Nonviolent Drug Offenders Free From Federal Prison Obama flexin’ on the feds… Via NYTimes Sometime in the next few weeks, aides expect President Obama to issue orders freeing dozens of federal prisoners locked up on nonviolent drug offenses. With the stroke of his pen, he will probably commute more sentences at one time than any president has in nearly half a century. The expansive use of his clemency power is part of a broader effort by Mr. Obama to correct what he sees as the excesses of the past, when politicians eager to be tough on crime threw away the key even for minor criminals. With many Republicans and Democrats now agreeing that the nation went too far, Mr. Obama holds the power to unlock that prison door, especially for young African-American and Hispanic men disproportionately affected. But even as he exercises authority more assertively than any of his modern predecessors, Mr. Obama has only begun to tackle the problem he has identified. In the next weeks, the total number of commutations for Mr. Obama’s presidency may surpass 80, but more than 30,000 federal inmates have come forward in response to his administration’s call for clemency applications. A cumbersome review process has advanced only a small fraction of them. And just a small fraction of those have reached the president’s desk for a signature. “I think they honestly want to address some of the people who have been oversentenced in the last 30 years,” said Julie Stewart, the founder and president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, a group advocating changes in sentencing. “I’m not sure they envisioned that it would be as complicated as it is, but it has become more complicated, whether it needs to be or not, and that’s what has bogged down the process.” Overhauling the criminal justice system has become a bipartisan venture. Like Mr. Obama, Republicans running for his job are calling for systemic changes. Lawmakers from both parties are collaborating on legislation. And the United States Sentencing Commission has revised guidelines for drug offenders, so far retroactively reducing sentences for more than 9,500 inmates, nearly three-quarters of them black or Hispanic. POTUS is really lettin’ it all hang out in his last days in office. Gay marriage. Soul-reviving eulogies. Prison reform. Barack is BALLIN’ on these hoes! Image via AP
Kenya just had to fire more shots at Apollo and Phaedra… Kenya Moore Says Apollo’s Arrest And Break Up With Phaedra Is Karma We recently reported that RHOA star Apollo Nida made a pre-jailhouse confession and admitted to lying about receiving nasty texts from Kenya Moore . Miss USA has accepted the apology and shared the news with fans. Later that weekend Kenya posted a picture on an Instagram about forgiveness and people assumed that she had a certain wire fraud committing reality star in mind. Kenya has made it clear that she feels bad for Apollo and Phaedra Parks’ children after he was senteced to 8 years in federal prison, but she still feels that Apollo and his family are just going through their deserved karma: What do you think of Kenya’s latest revelation? Hit the flip to peep what else she had to say concerning Apollo and Phaedra’s disastrous year next…
Love/hated superstar QB Michael Vick paid his debt to society by serving 23 months in federal prison on various dogfighting charges but that wasn’t enough for dog-loving NY Jets fans who SPAZZED over his recent signing while absolutely refusing to forgive the reformed (and deeply-humbled) star. Hit the jump for dog-loving Jets fans vs. Mike Vick.
A 43-year-old so-called Dallas socialite was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to transporting and shipping child pornography. youtube HLN
Barrett Brown, a hacker and former spokesman for the hacker collective Anonymous, is already in federal prison because of a different indictment, which was brought against him on October 3, reports PC World. Last week#39;s indictment stems from the December 2011 hack into servers belonging to Stratfor Global Intelligence (formerly Strategic Forecasting, Inc.), an Austin, Texas, firm that consults corporations and government agencies on geopolitical matters. Hackers working with the Anonymous
“This undated photo provided by the Tulare County Sheriff#39;s Department shows Hector Celaya, 31. Authorities say that Celaya is a suspect in shootings in which three people died and four others, including two young girls, were wounded Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, on the Tule River Indian Reservation in the Sierra foothills of California#39;s Central Valley. In the car with him were two daughters, 8-year-old Alyssa and 5-year-old Linea. One had life-threatening injuries; the other did not. Author
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