President Obama recently announced that he would be commuting the sentences of 22 drug offenders that were serving extremely long terms for nonviolent drug offenses. A number of those were serving life sentences. The Huffington Post conducted a survey to gauge how people felt about the president’s decision. The findings showed that more people were for it than against it, which may be indicative of how people view locking up others for drug offenses.
The HuffPost/YouGov survey found:
- 46 percent of Americans say they approve of President Obama’s decision.
- 23 percent of survey respondents disapproved.
- 31 percent were undecided.
About one-quarter of respondents said the length of sentences are about right, and only 14 percent said the sentences are too lenient. In the past two years, the number of people who believed that sentences were too lenient has dropped by 9 points, according to the Huffington Post.
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