Posted on 12/24/2018 8:03:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Opponents of this bill must demand meticulous tracking of every inmate who gets Early Release.
If a former inmate gets arrested or convicted for a new crime, that information needs to go straight into a public data base.
Trump frequently talks about the crimes committed by illegal immigrants.
The voters who oppose this bill must be able to hold Trump accountable for the new crimes that will be committed by the criminals that Trump releases from prison.
Re: “Most of these people are in Federal prisons for offenses that never should have been considered Federal crimes in the first place.”
In that case, Trump should have pardoned them or commuted their sentences months ago.
Why should the Democrats get any political credit since Trump can correct every injustice without them?
Stay off the crack pipe!
I hear you, I just get ticked off about this crap. I still have raw memories of our last round of ‘Criminal Justice Reform’ in the 1960s and 1970s, when we blamed prisons and society for making people violent, so we sprung the felons and had the largest crime wave in this country’s history.
So far I’ve seen NOTHING to imply that this experiment with ‘Criminal Justice Reform’ will end any differently - if anything, today’s criminals have been taught by the Democrats to be even more violent and hate-filled. We will, again, have thousands (or millions) more crime victims than we would otherwise have if these ‘reforms’ don’t quickly stop.
Just look at what happened to the murder rate in New York City between 1993 (when they gave up on the the earlier round of ‘Criminal Justice Reform’ and started locking people up again) and now - the murder rate dropped by 90%, from about 2000 to 200. There are literally tens of thousands of innocent people in New York who would be dead if they hadn’t ended their experiment with ‘Criminal Justice Reform’, but instead they get to live out their lives, as all of us should get to.
This is a racist “thing,” and everyone on this forum knows it!
An article re state recidivism statistics can be found at “2018 Update on Prisoner Recidivism: A 9-Year Follow-up Period (2005-2014)” https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/18upr9yfup0514.pdf
A similar article re: federal recidivism statistics can be found at “Recidivism & Federal Sentencing Policy” https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/backgrounders/RG-recidivism-overview.pdf
In all of this, though, what seeps through is that both sides of the argument have fierce proponents and it is difficult to sift through the wheat and chaff to arrive at a reasonable conclusion.
It is noteworthy that I did not see any correlation between state prisoners released who later were sentenced to a federal prison nor federal prisoners released who later were sentenced to a state prison.
I predict that this “reform law” will not end well for anybody.
Gee, maybe their crimes were no business of the Feds in the first place?
And maybe the DAs should not have plea bargained their more severe crimes away to get a guilty plea?
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