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President Trump, save Matthew Charles from being sent back to prison

By Tom Rogan
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President Trump, save Matthew Charles from being sent back to prison

On Friday, NPR’s Julieta Martinelli published a moving report on the plight of Matthew Charles, a man whose sentence President Trump should commute.

Charles was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison in 1996 after being convicted of drug dealing with aggravated circumstances. But after sentencing reforms introduced by President Obama, Charles was released in 2016, having served 21 years.

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