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Well there is this from Fox News:Can you cite those "watered down" provisions?While I do not place the blame on Democrats after trump signed watering down sentencing guidelines that release prisoners. I do support the death penalty. When carried out, a predator of society found, identified, tried, convicted and sentenced will never, ever strike again. The success rate is 100% as a preventative measure and recidivism is uniformly 0%.
All I recall is New York and California primarily, turning prisoners out on the streets and emptying jails
using the covid virus as an excuse for it all.
The First Step Act would give federal judges more leeway when sentencing some drug offenders and boost prisoner rehabilitation efforts. It also would reduce life sentences for some drug offenders with three convictions, or "three strikes," to 25 years. Another provision would allow about 2,600 federal prisoners sentenced for crack cocaine offenses before August 2010 the opportunity to petition for a reduced penalty. Trump signs criminal justice reform bill
A result I came across was this:
He was one of the first prisoners released under Trump’s criminal justice reform law. Now he’s accused of murder.
In February, with the approval of federal prosecutors and a district court judge, Francisco became one of the first federal prisoners to walk free as a result of the First Step Act.Last month, he was handcuffed again, accused this time of stabbing to death 46-year-old Troy Pine at a Providence, Rhode Island, hookah lounge. https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/09/us/first-step-act-release-alleged-murder/index.html