Talk Radio News: Obama To Visit Federal Prison, Push Criminal Justice Reform

President Barack Obama will be the first sitting president to visit a federal prison next week in a historic move that will be documented by Vice for HBO.

The newspaper said – in the context of the report reported on its website on Saturday – The White House announced yesterday that Obama will visit next Thursday, prisoners and officials in the Renault “federal institution reform” near Oklahoma City, where they will be conducting a press with interviews on this issue.

The presidential visit to the correctional facility is part of Obama’s “intensified push to overhaul the nation’s criminal justice system”, according to the Washington Post.

The medium-security facility for male offenders houses about 1,300 inmates and once housed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Keep an eye out for his interview with officers and inmates which will be broadcast on an upcoming episode of “Vice” for HBO as well. Vice founder Shane Smith, who will host the special, revealed that the documentary would offer viewers a first-hand look at how the president is addressing the problem of over-incarceration from a policy level.

The president is also supposed to give executive orders the following week which will commute the sentences of multiple nonviolent drug offenders.

This is part of an ongoing investigation by VICE into the world of crime and punishment, in hopes of establishing reform in the American criminal justice system, which just so happens to fall in line with Obama’s interests.

Obama is also scheduled to speak at the 106th Annual NAACP Convention in Philadelphia, on Tuesday in a speech which is expected to look at the inequalities within the prison system.