Penelope
Diamond Member
- Jul 15, 2014
- 60,261
- 15,769
- 2,210
- created 60 new death penalty offenses under 41 federal capital statutes, such as crimes related to terrorism, murder of a federal law enforcement officer and civil rights murders;
- offered grants for building and expanding correctional facilities to qualifying states that enforced mandatory sentencing of 85% of an offender's sentence conviction;
- called for a crackdown on gang memberships;
- included a ban on federal assault weapons, a provision on community oriented policing services, and the Violence Against Women Act.
Fact check: 1994 crime bill did not bring mass incarceration of Black Americans
Talk of the crime bill and mass incarceration took on a political implications with the candidacy of Joe Biden, who drafted the 1994 legislation.
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