Tens of millions of Americans have criminal records that can be barriers to employment. An AI-powered app is helping those eligible to expunge their records at a pace not seen before.
Owen Hanson won national championships at USC. Then he fell into debt to a Mexican drug cartel, became their logistics coordinator, and landed a federal prison sentence of nearly two decades. Now free, Hanson says the First Step Act, the criminal justice reform law enacted during President Trump's first term in 2018, cut years off […] The post Former USC star turned cartel courier credits Trump's First Step Act with saving his life appeared first on American Almanac .
Owen Hanson won national championships at USC. Then he fell into debt to a Mexican drug cartel, became their logistics coordinator, and landed a federal prison sentence of nearly two decades. Now free, Hanson says the First Step Act, the criminal justice reform law enacted during President Trump's first term in 2018, cut years off his time behind bars and gave him a reason to turn his life around. Hanson, the real-life figure behind a docuseries that earned him the nickname "Cocaine Quarterback," told Fox News' Lara Trump on the July 11 edition of "My View" that the law did exactly what its authors intended: it rewarded inmates who chose rehabilitation over idleness. His account is a concrete case study in what conservative criminal…Open
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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had led one of Italy’s most stable postwar governments. Now she’s under pressure after failing to convince Italians to back a judicial overhaul.
The Italian leader backed a reform package that would have weakened the country's judiciary, but it was defeated amid high voter turnout.