Posted on 02/17/2020 3:58:33 AM PST by karpov
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Reducing incarceration
Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders propose to reduce by 50 percent the number of people incarcerated in the United States at both the federal and state level. This would be quite the lift. If by “incarcerated” they mean every prison (as opposed to jail) inmate, they would have to persuade the states (responsible for 88 percent of 1.5 million prisoners) to reduce the sentences for some very serious crimes, eliminate mandatory minimum sentences, and maybe even sharply curtail the use of recidivism as a sentencing criterion.
Since over half of all state prisoners are in for murder, rape, robbery or assault, and another 14 percent were sentenced for burglary, major theft or fraud, public enthusiasm for leniency would be limited. The public will be even less enthusiastic when they come to understand that three out of four prison inmates are repeat offenders. Of course, there’s always the old left-wing standby of eliminating imprisonment for drug offenses, but drug possession accounts for only 3.5 percent of state prison populations. We’d have to free drug traffickers to downsize imprisonment a meaningful 11 percent.
If Buttigieg and Sanders were to include the jail population in their 50 percent solution (about 745,000 nationwide at any given point in time, but with very rapid and high turnover), they would have to find a way to reduce the number of arrests, perhaps by shrinking the size of police forces or curtailing arrests for quality-of-life offenses, such as aggressive panhandling or defacing public property. The most tempting option is bail reform by compelling local judges to release more defendants.
Bail reform
Bail reform is often billed as the antidote to discrimination against the poor, and Warren, Biden, and Sanders favor ending cash bail.
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Make their laws useless.
They have to make room for all the new political prisoners, don’t ya know. The “deplorables” must be .......modified.
Freeing criminals and turning them loose on the street is not “reform”. It is abject surrender and an admission that the authors of this strategy have no idea how to carry out real reform.
No, they don’t want to reform it. They want to politicize it.
You agree with the Demonrat platform, you commit crimes and go free.
You don’t agree.....Maximum penalty for minor crimes. Like Roger Stone. Don’t have any crime...They will make one up. Then they will destroy your life, like Flynn.
They just want to punish their political enemies, anyone else is free to go.
Good thing we have a functional Feral Government, like the FBI, CIA, IRS, DOJ, State Department, EPA to ensure ‘Just US’ is served.
Sarcasm off. It’s not Justice, its actually called TYRANNY.
Reforming is no jails at all except for conservative political friends
Man, I was lukewarm on James Woods as an actor, but holy moley, as a political voice, I think the guy is pure gold!
He often says, with more wit and directness, nearly exactly what I am thinking when he skewers them!
Here’s the deal. We used to try to rehabilitate criminals. Now we don’t. We lock them up and throw away the key. I personally believe in teaching criminals some kind of skill so they can get employed when they get out. And I personally believe in shortening sentences so we don’t have to pay to house, feed and medicate them for decades. If they are criminally insane, then they never get out. But otherwise, get them off drugs—my information is that inmates still have access to drugs in prison—so clean up the prison system from drugs, teach them a marketable skill, get them their GEDs and give them a second chance.
Oh he’s brilliant, he absolutely shreds the left with one sentence. Look at this one, on the possible Bloomberg/Hillary ticket..LOL LOL..
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1228769226996871168
Twitter banned him for a year, I’d like to know how he got back on because I’m banned as well.
Dems want to let the criminals out of prison so they can prey on hard-working, productive people and take their money which is “rightfully” theirs.
With a National Recidivism rate of 78 % who do they think is a candidate for rehab? Certain types are never rehab-able. Child Molesters are top of that food chain.
You’re right; rehabilitation isn’t even the goal anymore. In fact, they’ve become schools for career criminals. The prison system (like public education) has simply become a huge industry unto itself, and actually fixing things would cost too many people their livelihoods.
If we fixed our schools and actually fought a “war on drugs”, our prison system would be a fraction of its size.
Democrats think too many people are being put in prison and that it needs to stop. Conservatives believe so many people are in prison because they commit so many crimes and need to be locked up.
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