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| Erik 'My People' Holder's DoJ moving to commute non-violent druggies. |
| 2014-02-01 |
| [Washington Times] The Obama administration is moving toward reducing the criminal penalties for nonviolent drug offenders serving long prison terms to help blunt the rising costs of federal imprisonment and tame the growing racial disparities within the prison population. The decriminalization of wrong-doing, a long held administration goal. The move may allow thousands of offenders, currently serving jail time, to apply to get out of prison early, although it’s unclear specifically which offenders would apply and how many applications would be granted. How many additional ACA Navigators are needed ? The decision to commute sentences of nonviolent drug offenders is only the “first step” in helping to reduce the nation’s growing prison population, said James Cole, deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice, in a speech he gave Thursday in New York. The problem of a disproportionate number of incarcerated Amish must be addressed. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 A lot of the "non-violent" types are probably pleaded down from violent crimes because the prosecution had difficulty getting eye-witness testimony, and the defense worried about the possibility of new evidence or testimony showing up. So they made a deal. What I'd love to have passed into law is every government official has to house the worst parolees in his home for 5 years, as a kind of halfway house - reform via osmosis, as it were. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2014-02-01 15:20 |
| #12 Tex- I seriously doubt their definition of nonviolent has much, if anything, to with the violence of the crime and everything to do with the race of the prep. This is Eric 'we will not prosecute my people' holder and his boss. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-02-01 13:21 |
| #11 So are they going to let the white and brown crack users free? How about the white and brown cocaine users they compare against. Or is this just a racist president promoting racist policies? |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2014-02-01 12:42 |
| #10 I'm OK with this. There isn't enough room for the hard-core types already, and the prisons are already letting them out early due to over crowding. And some of these that they're referring to might be those arrested for crack and doing more time than posession of regular powdwer cocaine. |
| Posted by: texhooey 2014-02-01 12:36 |
| #9 Next step is to hire them, provide them with hollow points. They owe him one. |
| Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-02-01 11:20 |
| #8 Need all the allies they can get. |
| Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 2014-02-01 11:19 |
| #7 Emptying prisons so they've got space for anti-citizen criminals AKA tea partiers. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-02-01 10:49 |
| #6 Yup, and they will likely pick up where they left off...drug merry go round... |
| Posted by: Spanky Slaviper1555 2014-02-01 08:54 |
| #5 ..and tame the growing racial disparities within the prison population. Don't do the crime, don't do the time. Once again, addressing the symptoms, not the underlying social pathology that created and sustains the behavior. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-02-01 08:41 |
| #4 Obama can pardon anyone. Why the political drama? |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-02-01 08:23 |
| #3 We can only hope that a few will become his neighbors. |
| Posted by: Whatadeal 2014-02-01 04:45 |
| #2 Only the ones |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-02-01 04:44 |
| #1 That's it, let them out early, yup, crime will go down, trust me man, no worries, here smoke this bro, no problem, its all good. Ya ya ya ya |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2014-02-01 01:30 |