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President Obama is scheduled to visit a federal prison in Oklahoma Thursday where he will reveal details about a White House plan to overhaul the nation’s bloated criminal justice system.
According to White House, Obama’s visit to the medium security prison in El Reno, Oklahoma, will be “the first visit by a sitting president to a federal prison.”
Obama has made repeated calls for sentencing reform for nonviolent offences in the U.S., a topic that is sure to be pervasive during his visit as he vies for bipartisan support for rethinking sentencing guidelines.
The president will also participate in an interview with Vice News founder Shane Smith for a special on the U.S. prison system slated to air on HBO this fall.
“There’s an emerging consensus in this country — on both the right and the left — that the way we treat criminal offenders is utterly broken and weakening our society in profound ways,” Smith said. “Visiting El Reno with President Obama … will give our viewers a firsthand look into how the president is thinking about this problem, from the policy level down to one on one conversations with the men and women living this reality. It’s going to be fascinating.”
Obama hinted last month, following Supreme Court victories for the administration on gay marriage and Obamacare, that he was preparing to set his sights on criminal justice reform.
“I am really interested in the possibilities, the prospect of bipartisan legislation around the criminal justice system,” he said. “And we’ve seen some really interesting leadership from some unlikely Republican legislators very sincerely concerned about making progress there.”
One of those unlikely justice reform supporters is Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. The 2016 GOP presidential contender and avid critic of the Obama administration recently offered support of former Attorney General Eric Holder’s call to end mandatory minimum laws, and he has frequently introduced legislation with similar goals. Last year, Paul teamed up with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to produce legislation aimed at helping nonviolent offenders be more productive members of society by keeping their records sealed.
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