U.S. Justice Department Prepares To Release 6,000 Inmates

WUNC News | By Frank Stasio,

Charlie Shelton

Published October 22, 2015 at 12:15 PM EDT

NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson talks about the scheduled release of aprroximately 6,000 inmates by the U.S. Department of Justice

The U.S. Department of Justice is scheduled to release about 6,000 inmates at the end of October as part of a larger effort to reduce overcrowding in prisons and scale back punishment for low-level drug offenses.

North Carolina is set to release approximately 218 inmates, the fifth most in the country.

Host Frank Stasio talks with NPR justice correspondent Carrie Johnson about who was granted early release and the effects

Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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Charlie Shelton