Obama in the gap for ex-prisoners

US President Barack Obama wants Monday during his visit to Newark, New Jersey highlighting the need to assist returning ex- prisoners into society.

Obama visits Integrity House, an old center for assistance to addicts, and meet the Democratic senator and the mayor Cory Booker of Newark Ras Baraka. Booler of criminal law reform has made ​​its spearhead. Baraka was earlier this year one of the invited guests at the White House about the exceedingly large numbers of prisoners arches in the US. About half is fixed for drug offenses.

New Jersey has succeeded between 2011 and 2014 to reduce the prison population by 9.5 percent due to reduction of sentence, probation and perpetrators of minor drug crime less severe punishment.