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Obama presses bipartisan push to reform criminal justice
President Obama urged swift action to revamp a system he said harms minorities with unduly harsh sentences. He cited rising prison counts since 1980 and mass incarceration costs while noting momentum for reform from both parties. Some GOP critics derided his recent commutations as politics over policy.
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