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- This week President Obama has launched a major push to reform the country’s
criminal justice system. On Monday, he granted clemency to 46 men and women
facing extreme sentences — in some cases life in prison — for nonviolent drug
offenses. Tomorrow he is set to become the first sitting president to visit a
federal prison. On Tuesday, Obama described what he called a "broken system" in
an address at the NAACP’s annual convention. During his speech, Obama praised
the "unlikely bedfellows" campaigning together for criminal justice reform from
the left and right, including the Koch Brothers and Van Jones. We speak to
Jones, Obama’s former green jobs adviser, and Mark Holden, senior vice president
and general counsel for Koch Industries, where he is a close adviser to its
leader, Charles Koch. We also speak to Shaka Senghor. He shot and killed a man
in 1991.
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