Obama frees 2 Alaskan inmates

Two Alaskans are among dozens of federal inmates who will be freed decades early, the White House announced.  President Obama today commuted the sentences of Alex Contreras of Anchorage and Raymond Allen Thomas of Fairbanks.
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Contreras was sentenced to 40 years in 2002 for multiple drug and gun-possession charges. He was 19 at the time. News accounts of his sentencing say his convictions relate to his role in an Anchorage drug ring that sold crack and powdered cocaine.
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