Here is Bill Clinton HIMSELF admitting his crime bill disproportionately imprisoned young Black men. Deny that. Something tells me you guys will figure out a way to deny it.
Bill Clinton admits his crime law made mass incarceration 'worse'
Clinton takes too much credit: Obama came to the rescue. In Mi they are closing prisons, and one Rep said
Prisons do not exist to have jobs. (leave it for a white prison guard to have to move 100 miles to complain) I quite agree, but repeat offenders must be taken off the public streets, and also white color criminals.
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The trend toward increased incarceration began in the early 1970s, and quadrupled in the ensuing four decades. A two-year
study by the National Research Council concluded that the increase was historically unprecedented, that the U.S. far outpaced the incarceration rates elsewhere in the world, and that high incarceration rates have disproportionately affected Hispanic and black communities. The report cited policies enacted by officials at all levels that expanded the use of incarceration, largely in response to decades of rising crime.
“In the 1970s, the numbers of arrests and court caseloads increased, and prosecutors and judges became harsher in their charging and sentencing,” the report states. “In the 1980s, convicted defendants became more likely to serve prison time.”
Indeed, this trend continued with tough-on-crime policies through the 1990s as well, but to lay the blame for the incarceration trend entirely, or even mostly, at the feet of the 1994 crime bill ignores the historical trend.
“The trend of increased incarceration had already started two decades before 1994,” Jeremy Travis, the president of the John Jay College of Justice in New York,
told the New York Times. Travis led federal research on crime during the Clinton administration and was an editor of the National Research Council report.
Bill Clinton and the 1994 Crime Bill - FactCheck.org
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Reagan was tough on crime.
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Ronald Reagan's tough legal legacy.