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The Justice Department is set to release over 6,000 inmates from prison starting next month, which will be the largest release of federal prisoners in history, in the efforts of reducing prison overcrowding and relief to drug offenders who have received harsher sentences for drug crimes.

This announcement comes off the cusp of a recent sit down that President Obama had with prisoners at the El Reno Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma this past July. President Obama’s call for criminal justice reform has been one on his priority list, but this was a separate call to action made by the US Sentencing Commission.

Inmates from federal prisons nationwide will be set free by the department’s Bureau of Prisons between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2. About one-third of the 6,000 inmates to release have been identified as non-citizens and will be turned over to U.S. Immigration Custom Enforcement officials for deportation proceedings. Others will go to halfway houses and home confinement before being put on supervised release.

The Sentencing Commission estimates an additional 8,550 inmates would be eligible for release between this Nov. 1 and Nov. 1, 2016.