Description	President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "Working for Meaningful Criminal Justice Reform" from October 17, 2015. Original description of the speech: "In this week's address, the President highlighted the problems in our criminal justice system. Our country faces a vicious cycle of poverty, criminality, and incarceration that traps too many Americans and weakens too many communities. There are 2.2 million people behind bars in America today, compared to 500,000 just 30 years ago. This topic isn’t new – the President has talked about the unfairness of much of the criminal justice system since his time in the Senate. And while we’ve taken steps to address this issue, members of both parties agree that we can do more. Over the next few weeks, the President will travel the country and meet with Americans who are working to fix the criminal justice system, from law enforcement officials working to lower the crime and incarceration rates, to former prisoners who are earning their second c
Date	2015-10-17
Source	commons.wikimedia.org
Author	The White House

2015-10-17 President Obama's Weekly Address

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