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John Oliver made the case for doing away with mandatory minimums that require fixed prison sentences for certain crimes, on his HBO comedy series Last Week Tonight.
Two weeks earlier, President Obama announced in a Facebook video that he had commuted the sentences of 46 non-violent federal drug offenders he felt had already served sentences disproportionate to their crimes, and would call for more sentencing reform.
Oliver, in last night’s program, also touched on the economic meltdown in Greece, advertisers finally demanding audiences with FIFA about reform plans, but declined to discuss Donald Trump because, he explained, “who gives a shit about what he says.”
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