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Essentially none of those people are still in prison.
by justrealist 3y ago
Essentially none of those people are still in prison.
- dragonwriter 3y agoAnd if this was merely a commutation, that would matter more. But pardons don't just end sentences, they remove all lasting legal impacts of the conviction.
- riffic 3y agobut with a record can they get jobs, pass a background check, et cetera? This pardon is a good thing, why are we discussing it like it's not a move in the right direction?
- mikeyouse 3y agoUnfortunately everything in life is political now, so you can't just say, "Glad this happened" if you have some other unrelated gripe -- you need to downplay it, imply it's only for optics, say it doesn't go far enough, etc. etc.
- vvvvvvvvvvvv 3y agothey might be on probation tho