Holder proposes changes in criminal justice system

[Duped]

Just what we need, more druggie criminals walking the streets, emboldened by the president so they will commit more crimes.

BLOAD

Are you stupid? Your post is dumb as shit!
When you lock up people who have not victimized anyone - pot smokers. You place them in a predatory enviroment where they are enculturated, with full intention to release them back into society less equiped to integrate, and far more likely to victimize

The answer is to punish severely those predators. Put to death the masses of incorrigble.

No victim, no crime - punish criminals. If you punish everyone who takes a substance to alter their moods, you would be locking up 3/4 of the nation at least, and the desire to get high would remain. The drug war only exacerbates the drug problem. When will you idiots understand that.

Drugs should be legal: if you fall into that pitfall, at least there would be treatment availible, and you wouldn't have a record to impair you, and society for the rest of your life. The dealers would not have the lucrative markets, and there would be alot less government. There would be alot more money for education, and more room in jail for the predators.

All drug offenders with non victim status should be released, and their records expunged. If they commit real crimes, punish them. Those people need to be contributing to our country, and not dependant on it.

The drug war has done nothing to the supply, or demand - it is a fucking travesty!

 

[francoHFW]

"We need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, deter and rehabilitate - not merely to convict, warehouse and forget," Mr Holder said in a speech to the American Bar Association in San Francisco on Monday.

'Vicious cycle'

Under the reforms, Mr Holder is directing US prosecutors who draft indictments for certain drug offences to omit any mention of the quantity of illegal substance involved, so as to avoid triggering a mandatory minimum sentence.

Only non-violent offenders with no previous charges or ties to gangs or cartels will be affected.

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US prisons in numbers
Black and Hispanic people are over-represented in the prison system, 37% and 34% respectively US prisons are operating at nearly 40% above capacity Some 219,000 federal inmates are behind bars The cost of incarceration in the US was $80bn (£50bn) in 2010 Source: Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons
He advocated sending people convicted of low-level offences to drug treatment and community service programmes instead of prison.

Such terms, created as part of the US "war on drugs" in the 1980s, prevent judges from applying discretion when sentencing certain drug offences.

BBC News - US to cut back minimum sentences for some drug offences

 

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Holder proposes changes in criminal justice system

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With the U.S. facing massive overcrowding in its prisons, Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh sentences for certain drug-related crimes.

In remarks prepared for delivery to the American Bar Association in San Francisco, Holder also favors diverting people convicted of low-level offenses to drug treatment and community service programs and expanding a prison program to allow for release of some elderly, non-violent offenders
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Federal prisons are operating at nearly 40 percent above capacity and hold more than 219,000 inmates - with almost half of them serving time for drug-related crimes and many of them with substance use disorders. In addition, 9 million to 10 million prisoners go through local jails each year. Holder praised state and local law enforcement officials for already instituting some of the types of changes Holder says must be made at the federal level.

News from The Associated Press


I agree with Erik Holder...No one that smokes a leaf should be imprisoned period. This is really stupid and a waste of resources.

i agree..., BUT ! that is not the point, he wants the drug of choice used by most BLACKS to be decriminalized

Used by most PEOPLE and is the LEAST HARMFUL. Why should it carry such a heavy sentence?

 

[francoHFW]

Killing off more Reaganist hate, injustice, and stupidity. RIP Raygun.

BTW, there is NO EVIDENCE to call him a criminal. Just a pile of unfair, ridiculous propaganda, hater dupes.

u ignorant hack bastard. executive privilege mean anything to u?

Yeah, hater dupe, it means you need EVIDENCE to look at papers of the executive, not just BS from a-holes Issa and Pubs on a silly witch hunt. Sorry you don't get to hear the truth, brainwashed functional moron.

 

[Sallow]

Wow, the right is in full knee jerk mode over this.

This a good thing. True, I would prefer the decriminalization of pot, but letting them out of prison is a step in the right direction. This will save a tremendous amount of taxpayer money.

It won't happen though. The prison union is very powerful. If Holder goes through with this then that means less jobs for prison guards.

It's coming from the same crowd that thinks the government spends to much money.

Go fig..

 

[aaronleland]

Wow, the right is in full knee jerk mode over this.

This a good thing. True, I would prefer the decriminalization of pot, but letting them out of prison is a step in the right direction. This will save a tremendous amount of taxpayer money.

It won't happen though. The prison union is very powerful. If Holder goes through with this then that means less jobs for prison guards.

It's coming from the same crowd that thinks the government spends to much money.

Go fig..

One thing you can say about a lot of Republicans (and Democrats alike), consistency is not one of their strong points. They are also the party of "small government".

 

[theHawk]

Wow, the right is in full knee jerk mode over this.

This a good thing. True, I would prefer the decriminalization of pot, but letting them out of prison is a step in the right direction. This will save a tremendous amount of taxpayer money.

It won't happen though. The prison union is very powerful. If Holder goes through with this then that means less jobs for prison guards.

It's coming from the same crowd that thinks the government spends to much money.

Go fig..

Just because we think that the government spends too much money, doesn't mean we want every aspect of it "cut". I don't have any problem with increasing the budget of the DoJ and our prison systems in order to keep thugs locked up. It's what our government should be focused on, as opposed to crap like welfare, Obamacare, and a federal education agency.