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None of the pardoned individuals are serving prison time for their offenses. The main value of the pardon is that having a felony conviction makes it harder to

by pavon 4y ago

None of the pardoned individuals are serving prison time for their offenses. The main value of the pardon is that having a felony conviction makes it harder to get jobs and bars you from voting in some states. Around 8% of the US population has had a felony conviction.

joveian 4y ago
It can prevent people from running or working for legal marijuana businesses in states where it is legal, meaning a history of uneven enforcement continues to affect the legal marijuana industry. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amandachicagolewis/americas-white-only-weed-boom https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amandachicagolewis/amer... I think Oregon either has made changes to address this or is close to doing so. This helps at the federal level.
adolph 4y ago
Us pop: 331,893,745 % Pop w/Felony: 8% Felony pop: 26,551,499 Pardon pop: 6,500 % Felony Pardoned: 0.02% Unfortunately, the 8% of population with a felony includes state felonies, not just federal. Wikipedia claims 6,106,327 [0] as the 2016 total felony population but only includes states. 20M federal felony population seems large. In 2020 66,761 federal felonies were adjudicated with a 94.4% conviction rate [1], so annual rate of 62,755. Of those felonies "Drug" was 18,418 with a 92.6 conviction rate, so 17,055. If the total population of pardoned people is 6,500, that is a bit over 1/3 of felony drug convictions in 2020 alone. Given a conviction growth rate of about 5% over 30 years ending with 62,755, there would be a federal felony population of 936,422. That is barely 1M much less 20M. Something is off about the numbers. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_the_United_States#Recent_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_t... 1. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/fjs20.pdf https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/fjs20.pdf

by pavon 4y ago

joveian 4y ago

It can prevent people from running or working for legal marijuana businesses in states where it is legal, meaning a history of uneven enforcement continues to affect the legal marijuana industry. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amandachicagolewis/americas-white-only-weed-boom https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amandachicagolewis/amer... I think Oregon either has made changes to address this or is close to doing so. This helps at the federal level.

adolph 4y ago

Us pop: 331,893,745 % Pop w/Felony: 8% Felony pop: 26,551,499 Pardon pop: 6,500 % Felony Pardoned: 0.02% Unfortunately, the 8% of population with a felony includes state felonies, not just federal. Wikipedia claims 6,106,327 [0] as the 2016 total felony population but only includes states. 20M federal felony population seems large. In 2020 66,761 federal felonies were adjudicated with a 94.4% conviction rate [1], so annual rate of 62,755. Of those felonies "Drug" was 18,418 with a 92.6 conviction rate, so 17,055. If the total population of pardoned people is 6,500, that is a bit over 1/3 of felony drug convictions in 2020 alone. Given a conviction growth rate of about 5% over 30 years ending with 62,755, there would be a federal felony population of 936,422. That is barely 1M much less 20M. Something is off about the numbers. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_the_United_States#Recent_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_t... 1. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/fjs20.pdf https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/fjs20.pdf