He was the first African American president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, a student-run law journal that publishes eight regular annual issues. Obama, a former constitutional law professor, earned his law degree from Harvard University. The article, titled 'The President's Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform,' comes less than three weeks before Trump's January 20 inauguration. with some form of criminal record, to release 600,000 inmates each year without a better program to reintegrate them into society, or to ignore the humanity of 2.2 million men and women currently in US jails and prisons,' Obama wrote.
'We simply cannot afford to spend $80 billion annually on incarceration, to write off the seventy million Americans. In the 56-page article, the president defends his government's actions during his eight-year term on a subject that was crucial for him before his arrival at the White House.Īnd he also a calls on President-elect Donald Trump - who is not mentioned in the article - to urgently pursue further reforms.
The United States has 'much work to be done' to reform the criminal justice system and humanize the prison system, President Barack Obama said Thursday in a Harvard Law Review article.
