“In the 1990s, Harold and Dewayne Damper were involved in a drug trafficking operation that brought cocaine from Southern California to Jefferson Davis County, Miss. — at the rate of about 1 kilo of cocaine a month, prosecutors said.
“The two brothers, known as ‘Odie’ and ‘Doogie,’ were indicted together, tried together, given the same sentence and, until recently, served their sentences at the same minimum-security prison.
“When President Obama announced a clemency initiative to give drug dealers like them a second chance, both applied for presidential clemency.”