Afterward, the president told reporters the justice system needs to start distinguishing between young people who make mistakes and truly unsafe criminals. Obama echoed the voices of many Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians in a speech pushing for criminal justice reform.
Mexico’s government has released a video showing the moment fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman entered his prison cell’s shower before escaping.
At a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) conference earlier this week, Obama expressed his concern about the growing population in United States prisons.
Mexican authorities released the security footage that shows notorious drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman, aka “El Chapo“, escaping from prison through a tunnel, en route to his first celebratory beer.
As part of a weeklong focus on inequities in the criminal justice system, the president will meet separately Thursday with law enforcement officials and nonviolent drug offenders who are paying their debt to society at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, a...
REUTERS/Edgard Garrido A view of an area of the tunnel connected to the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary and used by drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to escape, in Almoloya de Juarez, on the outskirts of Mexico City, July 14, 2015.
Despite Guzman’s history of paying off authorities and other residents to get his way, former Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam in January shrugged off concerns over whether the drug lord could break free, saying the risk of a second escape “does not...
Mexican authorities have distributed 100,000 photographs of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to highway toll booths since his weekend escape from a maximum security prison, the interior ministry announced Wednesday.
Footage has been released showing the intricate underground escape route that Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman used to make his break out of prison over the weekend, so he could kick back and enjoy a beer in peace.
A forensics worker climbs out of the tunnel that according to authorities was used by Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, to escape from the Altiplano maximum security prison in Almoloya, Mexico, Tuesday, … “He continued being a powerful person...
“Mass incarceration makes our country worse off and we need to do something about it”, Obama said. The White House has posted a video of conversation between the president and David Simon, writer of the HBO television show, “The Wire”, in which Obama...