Life for Pot : 2015

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Osler's Razor: The Clemency Conundrum: It's not a mission accomplished

Saturday, October 3, 2015

This article in Vice by Justin Glawe is a story about a little known component of out Criminal Justice System.

The combination of being charged with conspiracy and going to trial results in Life without Parole for nonviolent marijuana offenders and all other nonviolent drug offenders. This is what Life for Pot has found for the nonviolent marijuana offenders that we have spotlighted on our site.

How Drug Conspiracy Laws Put Regular People in Prison for Life

Vice - Justin Glawe

Monday, September 28, 2015

From The Marshall Project

Why It's So Hard to Fire an Abusive Prison Guard

HBO: Obama on VICE

Saturday, September 19, 2015

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Friday, September 18, 2015

This article about the release of Cuban prisoners when the Pope visits comes to me via Douglas Berman's Blog - Sentencing Law and Policy.

If Cuba releases 3,522 for the visit of the Pope - the US must release 28,296 to show comparable Compassion Mercy and Justice

http://sfbayview.com/2015/09/cuba-to-release-3522-prisoners-on-the-eve-of-pope-francis-visit-why-cant-obama-do-the-same/

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Johnson v. United States

There will be lots of consequences from the Supreme Court decision Johnson v. United States.

Is it to hopeful to believe that one of them may be that Congress would craft legislation that is precise and without ambiguity.

The enforcement, prosecution and sentencing has increasingly run amok and resulted in over incarceration and loss of citizens freedoms due to overcharging and overly broad interpretation of the law. With the addition of mandatory minimums and the increased authority and power of prosecutors we have become a nation of prisoners when compared to the rest of the free world.

Discussion on Douglas Berman's Sentencing Law and Policy Blog

Thursday, June 25, 2015

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Monday, June 22, 2015

Life For Pot - Release Nonviolent Drug offenders

We're revising our web site to include current content and thoughts. During the next few months it seems to us that advocates need to contact the President and the Justice Department to encourage them to grant Commutations at an accelerated rate.

Inmates with mandatory minimums - Life without Parole - for nonviolent drug offenses need to have sentencing relief that they may not get through legislation. Congress should also not oppose the use of funds for the Pardon Attorney's Office. These are critical actions that must be taken to restore fiscal responsibility and justice.

Life without Parole for nonviolent drug offenses cannot be an accepted sentence for a nation that believes in mercy, compassion, and justice.

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Monday, June 1, 2015

Koch Urges Obama Administration to Grant Clemency to Release Nonviolent Drug Offenders.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2015/06/01/charles-koch-president-obama-release-drug-offenders-clemency/28309233/http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2015/06/01/charles-koch-president-obama-release-drug-offenders-clemency/28309233/

Saturday, May 23, 2015

State Inmates

Jeff Mizanskey received a commutation from Missouri Governor Nixon. In Missouri, this means that he can now recieve parole from the Missouri Parole Board. Let's hope they act with due speed. Jeff Mizanskey has been on featured on the web site Life for Pot. He is listed with some other nonviolent marijuana inmates who need commutations so they won't spent the rest of their lives in state prisons.

State Inmates

Monday, May 18, 2015

Former U.S. Pardon Attorney Blasts Process / Project

As we become more and more concerned about the success of Clemency Project 2014, I thought I'd share this video provided by PS Ruckman over at Pardon Power.

We are now into the 17th month after the launching of the promise of sentencing relief for the army of federal nonviolent citizens serving egregiously long sentences.

Since I concern myself with those unfortunate offenders who were charged with conspiracy for nonviolent marijuana offenses, hope rests with the discovery of mercy, compassion and justice within the Executive Branch.

As I look at all nonviolent drug offenders with life sentences or defacto life - an obvious pattern begins to emerge. These sentences are not given because of the nature of these offenders actions, but because of the prosecutors charging decisions. It could not be a coincidence that these offenders were almost all charged with conspiracy - the easiest charge to prosecute with the slimmest amount of evidence and they all elected to exercise their 6th Amendment Right to Trial.

Had these two circumstances been part of their case, they would most certainly have been released long ago.