Article from FLN Staff.
President Trump is said to be mentioning criminal justice reform in his upcoming State of the Union speech, a marked improvement by an administration that recently cracked down on marijuana enforcement, reversing Obama era relaxations on marijuana policy. The administration is reported to be in talks with think tanks on methods to reduce recidivism and lower the federal incarceration rate. Conservative groups have used these methods to great effect in Georgia and Texas.
One such program would assign prisoners with a counselor, which would be assigned to them from day one, and would help them adjust to life after prison. The Kochs are funding Safe Streets and Second Chances, a group that does extensive studying in prisons and makes recommendations based on data to lower recidivism rates. Such a policy would be implemented by executive order, whereby the Attorney General would open federal prisons to such groups in the hopes of actively rehabilitating prisoners, rather than just incarcerating them.
The federal government accounts for 10 percent of the total incarcerated population in the United States. more than any individual state in America. The administration has been generally open to providing additional resources to prisoners while they are incarcerated but are unwilling to change policy on mandatory minimum sentencing, National Review reported. This is a promising trend, as pro-liberty ideas are put forth to the administration and are being received well.
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I do not even like the term, ‘ CRIMINAL JUSTICE.’ what the heck is that supposed to mean ? It sounds too much like the term, ‘ ILLEGAL ALIENS.’ No one questions that term either. The word ‘ ILLEGAL ‘ should mean that someone broke the law. Maybe it was the criminals that justified those illegals so they were allowed to break the law. While this doesn’t make me feel any better about either scenario, it seems to make better sense. Who dreams up all these crazy terms today ? It couldn’t be the ‘ DREAMERS,’ because their parents were the
‘ ILLEGAL ALIENS.’ And while we are on the topic of ‘ DREAMERS,’ why do the liberals keep referring to them as little children, for sympathy ? The ‘ KIDS ‘ they refer to, have to be in their twenties, at least by now. To hear them complaining about these poor defenseless little toddlers you’d think they were talking about kindergartners. Give us a break ! Chuck Adkins
In the context of illegal alien, the word illegal DOES mean some that not only broke the law, but is CONTINUOUSLY breaking the law.
Exactly- They are criminals!
Chuck,
“Illegal Aliens” are people who are not American citizens, who ‘snuck into’ America instead of coming in through legal channels of immigration. They broke the law coming here and continue to break the law by staying. If they had gone through the proper legal means of coming into America, they would not have broken the law, and therefore would not be here illegally. Seems pretty straight forward to me. Not all immigrants are illegal or unwelcome, only the ones who didn’t go through the proper legal channels.
The only sure way to stop recidivism? Death penalty.
Too many are serving time for driving with out a license they are not criminals they need to be set free instead of breaking up the family life of this issue