President Obama’s final State of the Union address was billed as a speech that would look at “who we are” as a nation and other such flowery terms. Yet, he barely touched on criminal justice reform, the one issue that shows growing bipartisan support and has succeeded in numerous states. What a missed opportunity this was for the president to take a cue from the states and lead Washington toward meaningful criminal justice reform.

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