Obama shortens drug offences for 61 prisoners

President Obama has commuted the prison sentences of 61 drug offenders as part of his latest effort to overhaul the US criminal justice system.

All of the inmates were in prison for drug offences, and a third were serving life sentences.

Harry Horton reports from Washington.

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