"Why Isn't Obama Using Clemency To Correct Injustices? Because He Doesn't Care."
That quote above was an Instapundit tweet to an Atlantic article. Obama can talk about justice and fairness and fairness and justice and keep talking and talking, because it's apparently mostly -- or all -- just talk.

Ron Fournier writes on The Atlantic's site that the President will, on Wednesday, pardon a Thanksgiving turkey:

Which makes this a good time to ask why a liberal constitutional lawyer who bemoans the bloated prison system and proclaims that "life is all about second chances" is--on the matter of clemency--one of the stingiest presidents in U.S. history?

Put another way: If a turkey deserves a second chance, why not Weldon Angelos?

Angelos was sentenced in 2004 to 55 years' imprisonment for possessing a firearm in connection with selling small amounts of marijuana. He didn't brandish or use a weapon, nor did he hurt or threaten to injure anybody. And yet the father of young children and aspiring music producer was given an effective life sentence because of a draconian mandatory-minimum federal law.

Even the judge on his case, Paul G. Cassell, found the sentence "cruel and irrational." While urging Obama to reduce Angelos' punishment, the Republican-appointed judge wrote, "While I must impose the unjust sentence, our system of separated powers provides a means of redress."

More than almost any president, Obama has failed to exercise that "means of redress" enscribed in the Constitution, the presidential clemency. But that may be changing. The White House is considering a broad range of clemency reforms.

My guess would be that they're putting the word out that they're doing this. And that words will be the only thing that continue to be put out. Read the end of the piece. There's been a suggestion (by "Administration sources") that reforms are being considered by the White House, and there was this:

In addition to signing the the 2010 crack-powder legislation, Obama has directed Holder to take administrative steps to cut mandatory minimum sentences.

Followed by this:

Broader clemency reforms are not imminent.

(You can keep your 55-year jail sentence whether you like it or not.)