Posted on 01/24/2019 9:33:54 AM PST by Ennis85
Jay-Z, Meek Mill and sport and business leaders have pledged $50m (£38m) to reform the US criminal justice system.
The Reform Alliance, which was inspired by Meek Mill's recent stint in prison for a minor probation violation, hopes to free one million prisoners in five years.
The owners of the New England Patriots and Philadelphia 76ers, Robert Kraft and Michael Rubin, are co-founders.
Reform says it wants to help people who are "trapped in the system".
The group's "mission" is to "dramatically reduce the number of people who are unjustly under the control of the criminal justice system, starting with probation and parole".
"To win, we will leverage our considerable resources to change laws, policies, hearts and minds," it says.
More than six million people can currently count themselves as part of the "correctional population" of the USA - which includes people in prisons and local jails, but is mostly made up of the more than four million people on probation or parole, according to Bureau of Justice statistics.
Probation is often given as a sentence instead of time in prison and can include conditions like being on a curfew or going to rehab.
Parole is when an inmate is released early from prison with similar conditions to probation.
Meek Mill has experienced all three: probation, parole and jail.
The Reform Alliance says his case is an example of the "devastating and long-lasting effects" that can occur after one interaction with the criminal justice system.
The rapper was arrested in 2007 - he says wrongfully - for drug and gun charges, aged 19.
He was sentenced in 2009 to between 11 and 23 months in county prison, but was released on parole after five months and put on house arrest.
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PROBATION VIOLATION - Probation is a gift with the assumption that you will serve the rest of your time "clean" - If you can't abide by those terms, maybe you should remain in prison for your full sentence...
Meek Mill’s recent stint in prison for a minor probation violation
Right.
I bet not $1 comes from their own checking accounts. They will hustle HollyWeird, GoFund Me and the Feds for all of it.
More criminals on the streets. No thanks.
“Reform says it wants to help people who are “trapped in the system”. “
How about “Commit the crime, do the time”?
Is “trapped in the system” another way of saying “habitual lawbreaker?
Ex-Gangbangers sticking up for present-day Gangbangers.
So guilt may one contributing factor, or not.
Was I surprised? Not even a *little* bit.
Women make up half the population, but much less than half the prison population. There’s obviously discrimination against men in the courts.
The remedy is to stop incarcerating men until the male prison population drops down to that of the women. It’s only fair.
President Trump has asked those kneelers for any names of those who have been discriminated against so he can make past wrongs right and no one has given one name as far as I know.
Translation: Release negro convicts early, especially NFL players; Abolish probation, reduce all sentences.
This was the garbage that POTUS Trump signed on behalf of the un-elected JarIvanka. I wish they would understand that the left still hates them no matter what pet cause is pandered.
Think about this one for a minute.
Mill has been turned into an icon by the Poor-me contingent in Philly - a guy originally up on charges for a gun violation - guns, which we all hate because we know how evil they are - lefties aren’t able to reason beyond the ends of their own noses......
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