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Attorney General Eric Holder: Jail time for blacks is too long
The Washington Times ^ | 4/5/2013

Posted on 04/05/2013 2:35:04 PM PDT by Altura Ct.

Attorney General Eric Holder expressed “concern” Thursday evening that black men are unfairly served with longer prison sentences than white men and that America’s prison system demands overhaul.

“Too many people go to too many prisons for far too long for no good law enforcement reason,” Mr. Holder said, in remarks to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in New York, Politico reported. “It is time to ask ourselves some fundamental questions about our criminal justice system. … It is time to examine our systems and determine what truly works.”

Mr. Holder said in the Politico report that state laws oftentimes require sentences that are too harsh for the specific case — and that “breed[s] disrespect” for the court system. He also referred to a report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission released in February and said figures show that blacks are being disproportionately prosecuted and sentenced.

“I am concerned by a troubling report … which indicates that — in recent years — black male offenders have received sentences that are nearly 20 percent longer than those imposed on white males convicted of similar crimes,” he said, Politico reported.

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1 posted on 04/05/2013 2:35:04 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

2 posted on 04/05/2013 2:37:24 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Altura Ct.

Holder should be in jail FOREVER!


3 posted on 04/05/2013 2:37:36 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Altura Ct.

It’s called mandatory sentencing.

You guys wanted a standard system that would apply to everyone, equally, under the law.

Judges don’t really have discretion anymore.


4 posted on 04/05/2013 2:38:00 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Altura Ct.

Why that’s just horrible!
How can they put all of Obama’s sons in prison?
Let Holder’s People go!

Whitey just gonna have to suck it up!


5 posted on 04/05/2013 2:38:25 PM PDT by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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To: Altura Ct.

Holder can kiss my pastey white...


6 posted on 04/05/2013 2:39:45 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Vendome

Reminds me of the school district in Mew Mexico than announced a policy where white kids would get harsher punishments than minority kids for the same infractions.


7 posted on 04/05/2013 2:39:59 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Altura Ct.

Documentation File on the negative impact of the Obamanation Counterculture on America.


8 posted on 04/05/2013 2:40:37 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Altura Ct.

this F-in racist asshole should have been forced out right after the black panthers, how much more racism can the DOJ do to this country?


9 posted on 04/05/2013 2:41:11 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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10 posted on 04/05/2013 2:41:54 PM PDT by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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holder can come clean and tell the citizens the stats on black crime....how unbelievably violent blacks are and how they account for a huge percentage of crime considering their minority status...

build more prisons...put them...the criminals....away for longer times...

11 posted on 04/05/2013 2:43:28 PM PDT by cherry
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Attorney General Eric Holder expressed “concern” Thursday evening that black men are unfairly served with longer prison sentences than white men and that America’s prison system demands overhaul.

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So what Mr. My People is saying is that we should empty out the prisons and let violent criminals go back to the ghettos and rob and murder more black people.

The KKK could not devise a better plan.


12 posted on 04/05/2013 2:44:00 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Altura Ct.

“black male offenders have received sentences that are nearly 20 percent longer than those imposed on white males convicted of similar crimes”

I’m sure to unravel this mystery, one only needs to determine exactly how “similar” the circumstances are.


13 posted on 04/05/2013 2:45:57 PM PDT by Gil4 (Progressives - Trying to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand since 1848)
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To: Altura Ct.

Blacks are 13% of the population, commit over 50% of gun homicides and I have to give up my 2nd amendment rights because I can’t be trusted to own guns.


14 posted on 04/05/2013 2:46:30 PM PDT by umgud (2A can't survive dem majorities)
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To: Altura Ct.

I’ll be in favor of cutting jail time based on skin color if we can also cut the terms of political office-holders based on skin color.


15 posted on 04/05/2013 2:48:24 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Altura Ct.

The Department of Just-Us strikes again.


16 posted on 04/05/2013 2:49:38 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The Progs are pushing for war. Be ready.)
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To: Altura Ct.
feh...
17 posted on 04/05/2013 2:51:36 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Altura Ct.
Perhaps we should give them the option of being euthanized.

The country saves money, society doesn't suffer by having them released to kill or rob again, and the prisoners get out prison free and get a brand new adventure in the next dimension.

18 posted on 04/05/2013 2:51:46 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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It is an article of faith in Holder and Obama's neighborhood that US laws, rights, rules, regs, etc, are used to enforce the "status quo. "

TRANSLATION: To the disgruntled, the status quo means being kept in poverty, subjugated and marginalized while others are elevated and prosper.

(Needless to say, they have no idea how democracy works---and how all of our rights contribute to the creation of wealth and one's social status.

Absent from neighborhood grousing is that some people are simply smarter than other people---thus, they advance and prosper within the framework of freedom.

Others take the easy way out and turn to crime---that's why they're in jail.)

19 posted on 04/05/2013 2:51:49 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Altura Ct.

Jail time for those certain blacks (and whites) engaged in gun running and incinerating children in gun control raids is way too short.


20 posted on 04/05/2013 2:51:51 PM PDT by Paladin2
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