President Obama Grants More Pardons & Commutations

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President Barack Obama looks inside a cell as he is led on a tour by Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels, right, and correctional officer Ronald Warlick during a visit to the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., Thursday, July 16, 2015. As part of a weeklong focus on inequities in the criminal justice system, the president will meet separately Thursday with law enforcement officials and nonviolent drug offenders who are paying their debt to society at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison for male offenders near Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Obama added to his already historic list of pardons and commutations Monday, by 231 bringing the total to 11-hundred-76, more than the past 11 presidents combined.

Kim Lampkins has more …

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