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Obama: Too many folks in our prisons
investors.com ^ | Oct. 31, 2015 | ANDREW MALCOLM

Posted on 10/31/2015 10:11:02 AM PDT by PROCON

President Obama's weekly remarks

Hi, everybody. Today, there are 2.2 million people behind bars in America and millions more on parole or probation. Every year, we spend $80 billion in taxpayer dollars to keep people incarcerated. Many are non-violent offenders serving unnecessarily long sentences.

I believe we can disrupt the pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails. I believe we can address the disparities in the application of criminal justice, from arrest rates to sentencing to incarceration. And I believe we can help those who have served their time and earned a second chance get the support they need to become productive members of society.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bama; crime; prisons
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To: PROCON

spoken by a 100% criminal type


81 posted on 10/31/2015 12:05:58 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: PROCON

I think that’s what Obama says to himself when he wakes up every morning—

“What can I do to f*** up America today”


82 posted on 10/31/2015 12:12:51 PM PDT by Cubs Fan ( liberalism=totalitarianism- http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/06/the-new-totalitarians-are-here/)
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To: PROCON

yes, there are WAY to many in prison that should have been executed!


83 posted on 10/31/2015 12:31:05 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: skeeter

Prisoner exchange. Let two of them out and throw Obama and Hitlery in, where they both belong.


84 posted on 10/31/2015 1:10:24 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: mason-dixon

Atheists have only themselves for gods- Thou shalt steal and thou shalt covet are their mainstays.


85 posted on 10/31/2015 1:28:51 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: PROCON

Says who??


86 posted on 10/31/2015 2:59:13 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: PROCON

There are too many violent criminals who are not in prison and should be.

There are too many corrupt politicians and the people who own them who are not in jail and should be.

But there are too many non-violent criminals in our prisons.


87 posted on 10/31/2015 3:12:30 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: PROCON

I’d be happy to make a trade. Let’s release 100,000 criminals from prison and replace them with one treasonous Community-Organizer-in-Chief, one foolish Vice President, about 70 traitorous US Senators, and three hundred or so corrupt Congressmen. I’d consider that a big win for America.


88 posted on 10/31/2015 3:44:42 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: PROCON

“I believe we can disrupt the pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails.” - Why don’t we stop people from getting into this pipeline in the first place and stop rewarding people who sire/give birth to children but choose not to raise them?


89 posted on 10/31/2015 5:37:33 PM PDT by a.c.t.32
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To: PROCON
So, Obama says too many people in prison today?

I think we're two short of being in prison: Hitlery Rotten Clinton and Barack Husain Obama.

90 posted on 10/31/2015 5:41:06 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Pollster1

You left out Hillary Clinton, but you’ve a good start nonetheless!!


91 posted on 10/31/2015 5:43:00 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Wilderness Conservative
I know....the "folks" got to me too....

we need more in prison....we need them to stay there and never breed...

92 posted on 10/31/2015 8:07:52 PM PDT by cherry
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To: PROCON

Non-violent offenders can be released and should be so they can work and pay restitution. Keep the violent ones behind bars.


93 posted on 11/01/2015 1:32:49 AM PST by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: PapaBear3625

I am especially pissed about big time drug dealers. They should be tried and executed. Preferably by hanging.

What we need is a Devil Island where hard core scum can be dropped off and let to fend for themselves/ Lots cheaper than our prisons. Or contract out to a poor African nation for them to build large outdoors prisons for us. Send illegal alien law breakers there


94 posted on 11/01/2015 1:47:42 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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