{"id":520552,"date":"2016-08-04T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=520552"},"modified":"2016-08-05T02:52:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T07:52:33","slug":"obama-shortens-terms-for-214-prisoners-including-two-east-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=520552","title":{"rendered":"Obama Shortens Terms for 214 Prisoners, Including Two East Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/abcnewsradioonline.comstoragenews-images-july-2016WH_8116_PresObama-9cc2e5a9fc9c60be8477dcab8f1d3eaf7a968601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/abcnewsradioonline.comstoragenews-images-july-2016WH_8116_PresObama-9cc2e5a9fc9c60be8477dcab8f1d3eaf7a968601-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"WH_8116_PresObama-9cc2e5a9fc9c60be8477dcab8f1d3eaf7a968601\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-519271\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Barack Obama is shortening the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 doing life. The White House says it&#8217;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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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, &#8220;I wish it were over, even if it meant I were dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Barack Obama is shortening the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 doing life. The White House says it&#8217;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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=520552\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama Shortens Terms for 214 Prisoners, Including Two East Texans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 09:16:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520553,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520552\/revisions\/520553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}