EDS: Clients who used a Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Passing Clemency that moved Monday, Dec. 12, under a WASHINGTON dateline, are asked to use the following correction. The error appeared in the 19th graf of the original story. A corrected version of the story has been posted here.
WASHINGTON – A Dec. 12 Cronkite News story on the pace of prison sentence commutations under President Barack Obama failed to recognize one of the groups pushing for justice reform. When Cynthia Roseberry said, “We have recommended … that these mandatory minimum sentences be stopped,” she was referring to the work of the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, for which she is a board member.