The war for mass incarceration

[TheOldSchool]

Jeff Sessions, desperately seeking to put his stamp on the long failed war on drugs, has called for draconian measures against non-violent drug offenders. Draconian seems to be the status quo for this administration, huh? As prohibition empowered the gangsters and the mafia's, so is Jeff Sessions seeking to do the same. We all knew it was coming.

Trump - pro individual freedoms my ass

Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy

 

[xyz]

It's big business now, a lot of prisons have been privatized.

 

[task0778]

From your link, let's take a look at these long mandatory sentences for specific crimes but if you do the crime you oughta do the time. If you don't want to go to jail for 20 years or whatever, then don't effing sell drugs.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.

In a speech Friday, Sessions said the move was meant to ensure that prosecutors would be “un-handcuffed and not micromanaged from Washington” as they worked to bring the most significant cases possible.

“We are returning to the enforcement of the laws as passed by Congress, plain and simple,” Sessions said. “If you are a drug trafficker, we will not look the other way, we will not be willfully blind to your misconduct.”

The Holder memo, issued in August 2013, instructed his prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants with drug offenses that would trigger long mandatory minimum sentences. Defendants who met a set of criteria such as not belonging to a large-scale drug trafficking organization, gang or cartel, qualified for lesser charges — and in turn less prison time — under Holder’s policy.

Civil liberties advocates at the time praised the move as appropriately merciful — potentially preventing people from facing lifelong penalties for crimes that did not warrant such a punishment. But Sessions’s new charging policy, outlined in a two-page memo and sent to more than 5,000 assistant U.S. attorneys across the country and all assistant attorneys general in Washington, orders prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense” and rescinds Holder’s policy immediately.


Sessions said prosecutors would have discretion to avoid sentences “that would result in an injustice,” but his message was clear: His Justice Department will be tougher on drug offenders than its predecessor.

“These are not low-level drug offenders we, in the federal courts, are focusing on,” Sessions said. “These are drug dealers, and you drug dealers are going to prison.

 

[buckeye45_73]

your fellow commie libs say the premise of your op is bullshit.

so you want to let out rapists and murderers?

prison_reform_releasing_only_nonviolent_offenders_won_t_get_you_very_far.html

 

[Fenton Lum]

It's big business now, a lot of prisons have been privatized.

And we've returned to convict leasing, yes, we're right back to profiteering from bondage, but what the hey, the jobs are not coming back and the system can turn $40-50K per year, per hominid, and corporations have access to public funding. That's what privatization is all about - private access to public funding.


Stock traded on Wall Street, stables of lawyers and lobbyists drafting legislation to keep prisons full, and a profit motive for higher societal crime rates, higher rates of recidivism, higher rates of societal violence; all just good for bidness.


This got rolled out as a pilot program in TN when now senator Lamar Alexander was governor. He and his sweet wife Honey Alexander owned stock in CCA at the time.


That’s America; THE most incarcerated and surveilled population on the planet. For profit. With your "free" asses.

 

[TheOldSchool]

your fellow commie libs say the premise of your op is bullshit.

so you want to let out rapists and murderers?

prison_reform_releasing_only_nonviolent_offenders_won_t_get_you_very_far.html

Rapists and murderers? I'm sure you can find a thread about those to go post in.

 

[TheOldSchool]

From your link, let's take a look at these long mandatory sentences for specific crimes but if you do the crime you oughta do the time. If you don't want to go to jail for 20 years or whatever, then don't effing sell drugs.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.

In a speech Friday, Sessions said the move was meant to ensure that prosecutors would be “un-handcuffed and not micromanaged from Washington” as they worked to bring the most significant cases possible.

“We are returning to the enforcement of the laws as passed by Congress, plain and simple,” Sessions said. “If you are a drug trafficker, we will not look the other way, we will not be willfully blind to your misconduct.”

The Holder memo, issued in August 2013, instructed his prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants with drug offenses that would trigger long mandatory minimum sentences. Defendants who met a set of criteria such as not belonging to a large-scale drug trafficking organization, gang or cartel, qualified for lesser charges — and in turn less prison time — under Holder’s policy.

Civil liberties advocates at the time praised the move as appropriately merciful — potentially preventing people from facing lifelong penalties for crimes that did not warrant such a punishment. But Sessions’s new charging policy, outlined in a two-page memo and sent to more than 5,000 assistant U.S. attorneys across the country and all assistant attorneys general in Washington, orders prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense” and rescinds Holder’s policy immediately.


Sessions said prosecutors would have discretion to avoid sentences “that would result in an injustice,” but his message was clear: His Justice Department will be tougher on drug offenders than its predecessor.

“These are not low-level drug offenders we, in the federal courts, are focusing on,” Sessions said. “These are drug dealers, and you drug dealers are going to prison.

Yes, mass incarceration. Stop being redundant.

 

[martybegan]

Jeff Sessions, desperately seeking to put his stamp on the long failed war on drugs, has called for draconian measures against non-violent drug offenders. Draconian seems to be the status quo for this administration, huh? As prohibition empowered the gangsters and the mafia's, so is Jeff Sessions seeking to do the same. We all knew it was coming.

Trump - pro individual freedoms my ass

Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy

The simple solution is for congress to change the laws with regards to drug possession and or commerce.

The rules are the rules.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Jeff Sessions, desperately seeking to put his stamp on the long failed war on drugs, has called for draconian measures against non-violent drug offenders. Draconian seems to be the status quo for this administration, huh? As prohibition empowered the gangsters and the mafia's, so is Jeff Sessions seeking to do the same. We all knew it was coming.

Trump - pro individual freedoms my ass

Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy

The simple solution is for congress to change the laws with regards to drug possession and or commerce.

The rules are the rules.

Pfffffffffffffft, sure, we're a nation of laws and shit, what a fucking bullshit lie.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Liberals now love the gangbangers. Go figure.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Liberals now love the gangbangers. Go figure.

No one gangbanged like the founders babe.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

The ghettos of America need more drugs, more violence, less policing, and more lenient sentencing...

Lol

 

[Fenton Lum]

The ghettos of America need more drugs, more violence, less policing, and more lenient sentencing...

Lol

The american sacrifice zones will continue to spread, capitalism had a nice wealth extraction run in america, but it's moving on to greener pastures now.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Jeff Sessions, desperately seeking to put his stamp on the long failed war on drugs, has called for draconian measures against non-violent drug offenders. Draconian seems to be the status quo for this administration, huh? As prohibition empowered the gangsters and the mafia's, so is Jeff Sessions seeking to do the same. We all knew it was coming.

Trump - pro individual freedoms my ass

Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy

The simple solution is for congress to change the laws with regards to drug possession and or commerce.

The rules are the rules.

Fair enough. But Sessions should never claim to support individual freedom ever again.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Jeff Sessions, desperately seeking to put his stamp on the long failed war on drugs, has called for draconian measures against non-violent drug offenders. Draconian seems to be the status quo for this administration, huh? As prohibition empowered the gangsters and the mafia's, so is Jeff Sessions seeking to do the same. We all knew it was coming.

Trump - pro individual freedoms my ass

Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy

Well I would say, that let the drug users use drugs, and if it kills them, good. We don't want to incarcerate people who have a death wish on their minds(what ever minds are left from the drugs). If the government allowed more liberals to OD, then soon there aren't enough liberals left to vote for Dumbocrats.

Report: Drug overdose death rates increase in 26 states

Nearly 44,000 people die from drug overdoses each year, a figure that more than doubled from 1999 to 2013, and more than half of them stem from prescription pills.

 

[percysunshine]

Jeff Sessions, desperately seeking to put his stamp on the long failed war on drugs, has called for draconian measures against non-violent drug offenders. Draconian seems to be the status quo for this administration, huh? As prohibition empowered the gangsters and the mafia's, so is Jeff Sessions seeking to do the same. We all knew it was coming.

Trump - pro individual freedoms my ass

Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy

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Dude...this guy is going after Obamacare and helpless kittens. Focus man...focus...

 

[martybegan]

Jeff Sessions, desperately seeking to put his stamp on the long failed war on drugs, has called for draconian measures against non-violent drug offenders. Draconian seems to be the status quo for this administration, huh? As prohibition empowered the gangsters and the mafia's, so is Jeff Sessions seeking to do the same. We all knew it was coming.

Trump - pro individual freedoms my ass

Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy

The simple solution is for congress to change the laws with regards to drug possession and or commerce.

The rules are the rules.

Pfffffffffffffft, sure, we're a nation of laws and shit, what a fucking bullshit lie.

What a useless response.

 

[task0778]

From your link, let's take a look at these long mandatory sentences for specific crimes but if you do the crime you oughta do the time. If you don't want to go to jail for 20 years or whatever, then don't effing sell drugs.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.

In a speech Friday, Sessions said the move was meant to ensure that prosecutors would be “un-handcuffed and not micromanaged from Washington” as they worked to bring the most significant cases possible.

“We are returning to the enforcement of the laws as passed by Congress, plain and simple,” Sessions said. “If you are a drug trafficker, we will not look the other way, we will not be willfully blind to your misconduct.”

The Holder memo, issued in August 2013, instructed his prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants with drug offenses that would trigger long mandatory minimum sentences. Defendants who met a set of criteria such as not belonging to a large-scale drug trafficking organization, gang or cartel, qualified for lesser charges — and in turn less prison time — under Holder’s policy.

Civil liberties advocates at the time praised the move as appropriately merciful — potentially preventing people from facing lifelong penalties for crimes that did not warrant such a punishment. But Sessions’s new charging policy, outlined in a two-page memo and sent to more than 5,000 assistant U.S. attorneys across the country and all assistant attorneys general in Washington, orders prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense” and rescinds Holder’s policy immediately.


Sessions said prosecutors would have discretion to avoid sentences “that would result in an injustice,” but his message was clear: His Justice Department will be tougher on drug offenders than its predecessor.

“These are not low-level drug offenders we, in the federal courts, are focusing on,” Sessions said. “These are drug dealers, and you drug dealers are going to prison.

Yes, mass incarceration. Stop being redundant.

" Sessions said prosecutors would have discretion to avoid sentences “that would result in an injustice,” "

Guess you didn't read your own link. Stop being an idiot.

 

[martybegan]

Jeff Sessions, desperately seeking to put his stamp on the long failed war on drugs, has called for draconian measures against non-violent drug offenders. Draconian seems to be the status quo for this administration, huh? As prohibition empowered the gangsters and the mafia's, so is Jeff Sessions seeking to do the same. We all knew it was coming.

Trump - pro individual freedoms my ass

Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy

The simple solution is for congress to change the laws with regards to drug possession and or commerce.

The rules are the rules.

Fair enough. But Sessions should never claim to support individual freedom ever again.

I support legalization of pot to start, however while it is still on the federal books as illegal, if you do enough trade in it to warrant federal attention, it's all on you, not the law.

This isn't going to effect the guy slinging rock on the corner, this is federal enforcement, large amounts of shit being trafficked about.

 

[TheOldSchool]

From your link, let's take a look at these long mandatory sentences for specific crimes but if you do the crime you oughta do the time. If you don't want to go to jail for 20 years or whatever, then don't effing sell drugs.


Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.

In a speech Friday, Sessions said the move was meant to ensure that prosecutors would be “un-handcuffed and not micromanaged from Washington” as they worked to bring the most significant cases possible.

“We are returning to the enforcement of the laws as passed by Congress, plain and simple,” Sessions said. “If you are a drug trafficker, we will not look the other way, we will not be willfully blind to your misconduct.”

The Holder memo, issued in August 2013, instructed his prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants with drug offenses that would trigger long mandatory minimum sentences. Defendants who met a set of criteria such as not belonging to a large-scale drug trafficking organization, gang or cartel, qualified for lesser charges — and in turn less prison time — under Holder’s policy.

Civil liberties advocates at the time praised the move as appropriately merciful — potentially preventing people from facing lifelong penalties for crimes that did not warrant such a punishment. But Sessions’s new charging policy, outlined in a two-page memo and sent to more than 5,000 assistant U.S. attorneys across the country and all assistant attorneys general in Washington, orders prosecutors to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense” and rescinds Holder’s policy immediately.


Sessions said prosecutors would have discretion to avoid sentences “that would result in an injustice,” but his message was clear: His Justice Department will be tougher on drug offenders than its predecessor.

“These are not low-level drug offenders we, in the federal courts, are focusing on,” Sessions said. “These are drug dealers, and you drug dealers are going to prison.

Yes, mass incarceration. Stop being redundant.

" Sessions said prosecutors would have discretion to avoid sentences “that would result in an injustice,” "

Guess you didn't read your own link. Stop being an idiot.

They've had that for years, idiot. If that's what Sessions wanted he could have said nothing. Instead, he came out and said he's reversing a policy that's been in place for 20 years, and embracing draconian measures. Look at the crime rate over the last 20 years. Sessions has decided the drastoc decline is a failure, and he wants to go back to Reaganesque mass incarceration.