Obama to Push U.S. Sentencing Change Backed by Koch Brothers
Inmates make cookies in the bakery at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 26, 2014.
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The White House is preparing to seize advantage of bipartisan concern over the burgeoning U.S. prison population and push for legislation that would reduce federal sentences for nonviolent crimes.
President Barack Obama will champion sweeping reform of the criminal justice system during a speech to the NAACP annual convention on Tuesday in Philadelphia, press secretary Josh Earnest said Friday. Obama will present ideas to make the system “safer, fairer and more effective,” Earnest said.