Philadelphia’s District Attorney and college officials have come to a joint agreement to let nonviolent defendants to attend school at Philadelphia Community College rather than lock them up in prison. District Attorney Seth Williams says, “Instead of trying them, convicting them and sending them to prison and getting a felony conviction, which is an economic death sentence, we’re […]
More than 40,000 nonviolent drug offenders could be released early from prison as a result of the U.S. Sentencing Commission voting to reduce their sentences.…
