It was very understandably overshadowed in the news by an act of domestic terrorism that left four Marines dead, but President Obama’s visit to the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma earlier in the day was historic, being the first time a sitting president had visited a prison.
History. Obama. First time a sitting President visits a federal prison. El Reno Federal Correctional Institution. pic.twitter.com/tgHXDVu0Pz
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) July 16, 2015
Reporter and Obama superfan April Ryan retweeted some photos of the president’s tour of the facility.
amazing photo https://t.co/Up3TPpDvWr
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) July 16, 2015
.@POTUS's federal prison visit caps big week for criminal justice reform, @ajam reports: http://t.co/ybukHonH7D pic.twitter.com/UaYrYFrZWO
— Sentencing Project (@SentencingProj) July 16, 2015
Historic photo! https://t.co/QWDxStR6c5
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) July 16, 2015
President Obama tours the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma @potus @nytimes pic.twitter.com/X4ugQw22XG
— Doug Mills (@dougmillsnyt) July 16, 2015
https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/621724387994169344
The photos don’t show it, but the president did reportedly meet personally with six inmates, just days after writing letters to 46 nonviolent drug offenders whose sentences he commuted earlier in the week.
Pres Obama tours the Residential Drug Abuse Prevention Unit at El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma pic.twitter.com/Z26JQU1BPU
— petesouza (archived) (@PeteSouza44) July 16, 2015
Inside El Reno Prison, Pres Obama calls for reconsidering lengthy prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders. pic.twitter.com/hE1qfVDPjm
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 16, 2015
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The president, who has dedicated much of this week to demanding that Congress pursue criminal justice reform, had a personal message for the inmates.
I could have wound up in prison, Obama tells inmates http://t.co/s9V4lmPEvB | Getty pic.twitter.com/MooSdO2w2s
— POLITICO (@politico) July 16, 2015
Obama once again channeling the thug life he never lived as opposed to the privileged one he didhttps://t.co/7DJRIKPbWY
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) July 16, 2015
@redsteeze As someone who went to the same private school he did – this gets really old.
— FlagGazer (@FlagGazer) July 16, 2015
https://twitter.com/Tark31/status/621798334844399617
https://twitter.com/OrwellForks/status/621798384597364736
https://twitter.com/confedofadunce/status/621798572099510272
Serious question: Did President Obama tell inmates to stop raping each other, or was that message exclusively for the audience at the NAACP convention?
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