Obama Shortens Terms for 214 Prisoners, Including Two East Texans

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is shortening the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 doing life. The White House says it’s the largest batch of commutations on a single day in more than a century. Almost all the prisoners were serving time for nonviolent drug offenses. Sharon Price, Nacogdoches, was sentenced June 6, 2006 to 235 months in prison; three years supervised release; $20,000 fine for conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Jeffrey Lundin, Livingston, is serving time for conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States; conspiracy to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine while aboard a United States vessel; Southern District of Florida. He was sentenced September 15, 1998 to 324 months imprisonment; five years supervised release.

Another inmate, Dicky Joe Jackson of Texas, was sentenced to life in 1996 for methamphetamine violations and being a felon with an unlicensed gun. He told the ACLU in 2013 that he would have preferred a death sentence, adding, “I wish it were over, even if it meant I were dead.”