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The claim

"We commuted over 1,000 people's sentences...the federal prison system was reduced by 38,000 people under our administration"

Original publisher’s rating

He's right about the number of commutations during the Obama administration, but not about the federal prison reduction.

Reviewed by BBC Reality Check ↗ ·

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    Original review: BBC Reality Check. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms.

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