Kamala Harris is either the stupidest or the cruelest senator in America
As far as I was concerned, Joe did a good job. We don't want repeat offenders, and so Joe didn't always provide creature comforts. He gave the prisoners what they needed. That was it.
So when considering if he deserves a pardon or not, I am heavily in favor of it.
Harris is wrong with regard to him. And for her, it's political. She's not fooling anyone.
As for this guy...
Evans Ray Jr. was a small business owner who ran a neighborhood barbershop. Evans Ray Jr. is a family man who loved his wife and four kids. And Evans Ray Jr. is also a convicted felon. To help a buddy, he agreed during a moment of indiscretion in 2004 to arrange a drug deal.
Because of his two nonviolent priors in the early 1990s, he was sentenced to the mandatory minimum under Maryland law: life in prison. After a dozen years at a high-security penitentiary, Ray received presidential clemency, a chance, as President Obama wrote to him, "to turn your life around."
First of all, if this guy loved his family so much, why didn't he keep his nose clean so that he could continue to provide for them?
Next, what were the two non-violent priors? I could steal $250 billion bucks, and only be guilty of a non-violent prior.
A number of states came up with the three strikes rule when they got sick and tired of the same old people committing crime after crime after crime after crime...
The concept was widely favored by the public. Folks started going away to prison. Crime dropped.
Then about five to ten years later, a lot of bleeding hearts started playing the same old games they played with the death penalty. They started carping about how unfair it all was.
No, it's not really all that unfair at all. The public should not have to put up with people who can't live by the laws of the land.
After you've been severely negatively impacted by these folks, you'll get it.
This is directed at you, and is not intended to be taking you to task.
Why not both?!