FAMM Commends President Obama for Exercising Clemency Power

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 21, 2011Contact: Molly Gill or Monica Pratt Raffanel, (202) 822-6700 or media@famm.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) applauds President Obama for commuting the federal prison sentence of FAMM member Eugenia Jennings today, and for pardoning five others. Julie Stewart, president and founder of FAMM, issued the following statement in response to today’s news: “Eugenia Jennings’s 22-year sentence for her nonviolent offense was over-kill.  Today, President Obama rights that wrong and we are grateful to him.  We urge the