New Criminal Justice Reform Law Releases Violent Felons, Not Peaceful Drug Dealers

Townhall.com ^ | December 24, 2018 | Rachel Alexander

[Alberta's Child]

All good point here, but the bigger issue is that most of these people are in Federal prisons for offenses that never should have been considered Federal crimes in the first place.

[Robert DeLong]

Peaceful Drug Dealers?

[shelterguy]

Peaceful Drug Dealers?
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Yeah, I caught that, too. I have known numerous drug dealers.
I would never call them peaceful.

[kiryandil]

But "Muh Plea Bargain".

I remember all the hours we spent in 18th Century American History class discussing how the Founders IMMMEDIATELY appointed dozens of full-time Federal prosecutors in every jurisdiction, and how plea bargaining was one of the big subjects of the Federalist/Anti-Federalist papers.

Or not...

Screw the Federal government and its phony "Laws For The Little People".

[BobL]

This is why I was hoping that Mueller would have indicted Trump’s kids. They have no business being involved in policy. They are CLUELESS.

[Flick Lives]

This is why I was hoping that Mueller would have indicted Trump’s kids. They have no business being involved in policy.

Yes. Lets use an out of control prosecutor to put away people you don't like as political prisoners. Good God.

[caww]

Even so.....let them out and we can hope they’ll be taken down on the street.

[BobL]

They made A CHOICE to get involved in crap that they had no business being involved in. Anyway too late now, the bodies will start filling the morgues again, regardless of what Mueller does.

[vette6387]

“Even so.....let them out and we can hope they’ll be taken down on the street.”

It's time to try something different. America incarcerates a far larger percentage of its citizens that nearly every other Western country. So either we are just more “criminally inclined” or there's something wrong with our laws and justice system.
The only caveat for me is the number of illegal aliens we jail and the wall would help that situation immeasurably. Here in California I believe they represent more than one third of our state's prison population. Federal judges here have said build more prisons, or let them out, because of our overcrowding. Central Valley cities like Stockton and Fresno have serious illegal alien-spawned crime problems.

[Kaslin]

Huh? Are you okay?

[Kaslin]

Huh? Are you okay?

[Yogafist]

Turning America into California.

[Alberta's Child]

I'm pretty sure Federal crimes were almost non-existent in the 18th Century. The "Federal prosecutors" were U.S. Attorneys whose primary responsibility was to represent the United States of America in civil proceedings, not criminal cases. I suspect their primary role was in negotiating land deals with states and overseeing legal proceedings as new states were admitted to the Union.

Federal crimes were probably limited to piracy on the high seas (which would be outside the jurisdiction of any state), and Federal tax evasion.

The U.S. Department of Justice didn't even exist until 1870.

[caww]

....”Either we are just more “criminally inclined” or there’s something wrong with our laws and justice system”...

Both.

[kiryandil]

I see that you got my mockery of the Just-Us clowns running our Jesters System...   

There’s just-us in the US. Just us peasants go to jail.

[American in Israel]

Awww, the peaceful prisoners are being neglected for the violent murderers...

[American in Israel]

Awww, the peaceful poisoners are being neglected for the violent murderers...

[ZULU]

Remember to turn in your guns. "we hold these truths to be self-evident. that all men ate created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.......that governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever a government becomes abusive of those ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it ..."

What would the Founding Fathers do with people like Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and John Roberts? What would they do with an all powerful beaurotocracy of greedy, mindless, self-serving gangsters and a deep swamp full of traitors who fill their pockets with graft and "campaign contributions" in return for national safety and security?

[Noamie]

We have a very large and very diverse population. Diverse populations always have higher crime rates.

Besides, 180k offenders in the entire US is nothing. GA, alone, has almost 88,000 in state prison. For the Feds to act like they are over crowded is a joke.

Ppl who are ignorant of how the system works have been telling me how great this is for several days now. They sound very naive to me, like children. One fella said that now, the guy he convicted for pot possession (as a jury member in State Superior court) could now get early release. He didnt even have a basic understanding of state court versus Fed court and that his man doesnt even fall under this Fed change bc he is a State inmate.