The Justice Department has announced that it will begin releasing 6,000 “nonviolent” inmates from federal prisons starting at the end of this month. Welcome to the era of de-incarceration. At a conference named for former New York Mayor David Dinkins (who presided over the city at a time of runaway crime), Hillary Clinton decried the number of Americans behind bars and declared, “It’s time to change our approach. It’s time to end the era of mass incarceration.”
In this, she is joined by Bernie Sanders and other Democrats, and also by Charles Koch, who wrote recently that “Overcriminalization has led to the mass incarceration of those ensnared by our criminal justice system, even though such imprisonment does not always enhance public safety. Indeed, more than half of federal inmates are nonviolent drug offenders.” Sen. Rand Paul has called mass incarceration “the new Jim Crow.” And Carly Fiorina suggested during the last debate, “We have the highest incarceration rates in the world. Two-thirds of the people in our prisons are there for nonviolent offenses, mostly drug-related. It is clearly not working.”
Not exactly. The U.S. does have the highest incarceration rate in the world (that is, among nations that list these data honestly), but the assertion that most of the people incarcerated are there for nonviolent crimes is false. Advocates for de-incarceration often cite the number of federal prisoners who committed nonviolent drug offenses. This is highly misleading. Of the 2.2 million inmates in America, only about 200,000 are federal prisoners.
this debunks there public safety laws which they illegally use against good decent Americans all the time. so, when one of these clowns from any of the alphabet lawless agencies says to you it’s for the good of the public tell them to stick it up there rear ends and cite what the DOJ has done by letting out criminals and ordered to by the sodomites administration. this is all a voting scam have felons vote in the 2016 elections. this filthy black sodomite is laughing at the American people and how he can get away with what ever he wants because he is black and the congress wont and can act because he is a scum ghetto negro.