John Oliver spent Sunday night highlighting the tragic effects of senselessly harsh mandatory minimum sentences–sentences, he noted, which were once enthusiastically pushed by Democrats like Bill Clinton.
In one case, Weldon Angelos, a twenty-something nonviolent first-time offender, received 55 years with no parole for selling a small amount of marijuana to an informant, simply because he happened to have a gun on him.
It was a case so blatantly unjust that even the judge who sentenced him called the situation “just not right.”
“This low-level pot dealer received the exact same sentence as would an airplane-hijacking, child-raping terrorist–a person so evil I legitimately don’t know if one has ever existed,” said Oliver.
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