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The Left’s Plan to Cut Loose a Million Prisoners
The radicals' assault on the rule of law -- and on the institutions that keep Americans safe.
March 18, 2016
Matthew Vadum
Radical left-wingers want to free half the nation's prisoners --including many violent offenders-- a move that would cause an upsurge in crime rates for decades to come.
To many of today's leftists criminality itself is an illegitimate concept. The mindless chanting of the slogan "no one is illegal" at open-borders rallies is part of the same school of thought.
Spearheaded by the American Civil Liberties Union and bankrolled by radical speculator George Soros, the "end mass incarceration" movement wants to reduce the U.S. prison population by 50 percent within the next 10 to 15 years.
This specific push is called the "Cut50" project.
"We have the largest incarcerated population in the world despite the fact that we're a democracy and that we value individual freedoms," Alison Holcomb, national director of the ACLU Campaign to End Mass Incarceration told public radio station KUOW in Puget Sound, Wash.
"The overuse of our criminal justice system has resulted in expanding a caste, a second class of citizens that lose their right to vote, that won't be able to get loans to go to school, that will probably have difficulty renting an apartment and that is not healthy for our society and it's actually compromising our safety."
Like Black Lives Matter supporter and Baltimore riot organizer DeRay Mckesson, Holcomb doesn't care about property rights.
She doesn't want thieves and robbers jailed even briefly. If someone steals property, "why is the response to put that person in a cage?" she said.
Holcomb's comrades want to unleash more than a million inmates --including violent offenders-- on American society.
"With 2.3 million Americans incarcerated in prisons and jails, a 50 percent reduction would mean changing sentencing and parole rules to cut the net population by more than 1 million people, either by releasing current inmates or by not incarcerating future offenders," reports the sympathetic left-wing media site TheMarshallProject.org.
Halving the prison population would require changing sentencing rules "not only for the so-called 'non, non, nons' — non-violent, non-serious, and non-sex offender criminals — but also for some offenders convicted of violent crimes."
Shortening sentence lengths, relaxing parole criteria, shifting convicts from incarceration to probation or community service, sending more inmates to mental illness programs or addiction treatment, "and even redefining what offenses are considered violent in the first place."
"Violent offenders would have to be part of any serious attempt to halve the number of prisoners," the news report states.
Some of the violent offenders could be made to disappear simply by wordplay, explains self-described communist and former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones.
“We might want to look at whether someone who had a gun but didn’t use it should be considered violent,” said Jones, co-founder of Rebuild the Dream and plenty of other hard-left groups. “People will say that’s gun crime and you can’t talk about them. Well, I think that’s ridiculous.”
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The Left’s Plan to Cut Loose a Million Prisoners
The Left’s Plan to Cut Loose a Million Prisoners
The radicals' assault on the rule of law -- and on the institutions that keep Americans safe.
March 18, 2016
Matthew Vadum
Radical left-wingers want to free half the nation's prisoners --including many violent offenders-- a move that would cause an upsurge in crime rates for decades to come.
To many of today's leftists criminality itself is an illegitimate concept. The mindless chanting of the slogan "no one is illegal" at open-borders rallies is part of the same school of thought.
Spearheaded by the American Civil Liberties Union and bankrolled by radical speculator George Soros, the "end mass incarceration" movement wants to reduce the U.S. prison population by 50 percent within the next 10 to 15 years.
This specific push is called the "Cut50" project.
"We have the largest incarcerated population in the world despite the fact that we're a democracy and that we value individual freedoms," Alison Holcomb, national director of the ACLU Campaign to End Mass Incarceration told public radio station KUOW in Puget Sound, Wash.
"The overuse of our criminal justice system has resulted in expanding a caste, a second class of citizens that lose their right to vote, that won't be able to get loans to go to school, that will probably have difficulty renting an apartment and that is not healthy for our society and it's actually compromising our safety."
Like Black Lives Matter supporter and Baltimore riot organizer DeRay Mckesson, Holcomb doesn't care about property rights.
She doesn't want thieves and robbers jailed even briefly. If someone steals property, "why is the response to put that person in a cage?" she said.
Holcomb's comrades want to unleash more than a million inmates --including violent offenders-- on American society.
"With 2.3 million Americans incarcerated in prisons and jails, a 50 percent reduction would mean changing sentencing and parole rules to cut the net population by more than 1 million people, either by releasing current inmates or by not incarcerating future offenders," reports the sympathetic left-wing media site TheMarshallProject.org.
Halving the prison population would require changing sentencing rules "not only for the so-called 'non, non, nons' — non-violent, non-serious, and non-sex offender criminals — but also for some offenders convicted of violent crimes."
Shortening sentence lengths, relaxing parole criteria, shifting convicts from incarceration to probation or community service, sending more inmates to mental illness programs or addiction treatment, "and even redefining what offenses are considered violent in the first place."
"Violent offenders would have to be part of any serious attempt to halve the number of prisoners," the news report states.
Some of the violent offenders could be made to disappear simply by wordplay, explains self-described communist and former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones.
“We might want to look at whether someone who had a gun but didn’t use it should be considered violent,” said Jones, co-founder of Rebuild the Dream and plenty of other hard-left groups. “People will say that’s gun crime and you can’t talk about them. Well, I think that’s ridiculous.”
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The Left’s Plan to Cut Loose a Million Prisoners
