President Barack Obama speaks to reporters during a July 2015 visit to the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution outside Oklahoma City. For Richardson and hundreds of other nonviolent drug offenders granted clemency under Obama, the truncated prison sentence was a rare opportunity to reenter society. During his two terms in office, Obama commuted a total of 1,715 prison sentences, more than any other president in history. However, on April 13, less than a year after her release, Richardson was arrested for theft in Pasadena, Tex., a Houston suburb. In 1993 at age 22, Brown was sentenced to life in prison for cocaine distribution.

Source: Washington Post June 10, 2017 18:22 UTC