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Reply to "Please Mr. President… Who’re the people you pardoned – and what crimes did they commit"

Anscale Fish is absolutely right. This is a minor non-issue of a limited exercise of the pardon power. Young adults or anyone for that matter deserve to not rot in jail for petty reasons. These were petty non violent mostly drug offenses. This is being raised as an issue because I'm almost certain most of the pardoned are Black. It's only important to some to find some nonsensical angle of this Government letting loose hordes of Black criminals to prey on innocent Indos.

Guyana is a small society where any record of "criminal activity" no matter how petty is a permanent Black mark.

Guyanese sentencing laws are quite draconian and in need of reform. A marijuana joint should not result in years of prison time.
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