Obama, in prison documentary: U.S. legal system has been 'unjust'

The United States has too long ignored the effect of high incarceration rates on minority and poor communities, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a TV documentary featuring an unprecedented presidential visit to a prison. "They then get involved in the criminal justice system, and it just churns, and everybody thinks that's normal," the president told the nonviolent drug offenders at the medium-security El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma. Obama has made criminal justice reform a top priority of his final years in office and beyond.

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