A former crack cocaine dealer — who was granted clemency from the Obama administration — allegedly opened fire on an Illinois highway.
A former crack cocaine dealer — whose sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama — is back behind bars for allegedly shooting a car passenger on an Illinois highway, police said.
Alton Mills, 54, who was granted clemency eight years ago, was booked on three attempted murder charges over the shooting that left the victim critically injured,Mills, while inside a car, is accused of firing “multiple shots” at another vehicle on an Interstate 57 ramp Sunday in Posen, a village roughly 30 miles south of Chicago.
“The back-seat passenger in the victim vehicle was struck by gun fire and was transported to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries,” police said.by former Obama after serving 22 years in prison for drug charges.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin repeatedly shared Mills’ story — including on the Senate floor — as he advocated for a prison reform bill that would tackle “reforming sentencing laws and providing opportunities for those who are incarcerated to prepare to reenter society successfully.” “An overlooked casualty in our ‘war on drugs’ are the men and women who have been convicted under disproportionately harsh mandatory minimum sentencing laws. One such man is Alton Mills, who served more than two decades of a mandatory life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, a punishment even the sentencing judge disagreed with,” Durbin
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