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Obama's Prison Visit Sets An Example

Obama's Prison Visit Sets An Example
Obama's Prison Visit Sets An Example

Whatever you think of his stance on other issues, President Obama got it right recently by pulling a page straight out of the Gospels.

In an echo of Matthew 25:36, he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit a federal prison. He sat across from six men in jumpsuits at a medium-security facility in Oklahoma and heard their stories. He set aside rhetorical abstractions and saw people who, despite their crimes, have been made in the image of God.
For a week of symbolic moves — including the prison visit and the commutations of 46 non-violent drug offenders' sentences — the president is to be applauded. He has brought national attention to the need to reform laws and policies that have given us the world's highest incarceration rate.

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