Just as Obama did with his landmark speech at the NAACP several weeks ago, comedian and host of Last Week Tonight, Jon Oliver, has thrust the issue of mandatory minimum sentencing into the spotlight of public discourse. In a segment both critically astute and emotionally wrenching, Oliver demonstrated that comedians are amongst those taking most seriously the devastating toll such policies take on our society as a whole.
Because when the situation has become so bad that reality becomes the basis for an almost absurdist comedy, something’s gone terribly, terribly wrong.
Published Jul 30, 2015 by Christopher Zoukis, JD, MBA | Last Updated by Christopher Zoukis, JD, MBA on Jul 27, 2023 at 6:01 pm
