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With only weeks left of his administration, President Joe Biden has earned praise from rights groups and advocates for exercising his clemency powers , including announcing Monday that he is commuting the death sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row —but the Congressional Progressive Caucus is urging him to go further.
'Reacting to those commutations and pardons, the Drug Policy Alliance wrote that 'President Biden's historic actions today acknowledge what Americans have long known: that our country's practice of doling out lengthy prison sentences to people for drug offenses has put lives at risk, broken families apart, and wasted billions of dollars.
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