Posted on 12/04/2016 8:18:28 PM PST by detective
Sentencing reform, a euphemism that the pro-crime lobby uses to mean going soft on criminals, is championed by the left and by some elements on the right. This Washington Post story shows the terrible effects of sentencing reform on the victims of criminals freed to rape and kill.
Hundreds of criminals sentenced by D.C. judges under an obscure local law crafted to give second chances to young adult offenders have gone on to rob, rape or kill residents of the nation’s capital.
The original intent of the law was to rehabilitate inexperienced criminals under the age of 22. The District’s Youth Rehabilitation Act allows for shorter sentences for some crimes and an opportunity for offenders to emerge with no criminal record. But a Washington Post investigation has found a pattern of violent offenders returning rapidly to the streets and committing more crimes. Hundreds have been sentenced under the act multiple times.
In dozens of cases, D.C. judges were able to hand down Youth Act sentences shorter than those called for under mandatory minimum laws designed to deter armed robberies and other violent crimes. The criminals have often repaid that leniency by escalating their crimes of violence upon release.
Because that's how criminals work.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Prisons are commonly schools of crime as it is.
1 in 5? Not too bad. It’s better than Guantanamo I think.
Maybe.
If a prison has to be a school of something, why can’t it be made to be a school of civics. While one can lead a horse to water and still not have it drink, if there isn’t even any water than it’s hard to blame the horse.
This should make libertarians happy. After all, it’s laws, jails and cops that cause crime in the first place.
The Rep GA Gov has this bug as well. The volume of early prison releases combined with behind the scenes instructions to Judges to avoid sending offenders to prison - at all costs - would rattle this state if the numbers were known.
We are seeing staggering recidivism rates. Those are NEW crimes on innocent citizens from people who should be in prison.
All over money. It costs more to incarcerate than to release. Who cares about public safety. Not GA.
And to whomever says prison should be about reform and not punishment.... I garantee you’ve never worked directly with inmates or set foot in a prison. People don’t know s$)&. Just run their ignorant mouths about fantasies and lies they see on tv.
Next ten years are going to be dangerous. Nation wide.
It would be great if prisons had courses on civics, citizenship, moral character, Christian study, how to work and save money. Not saying murderers should be released early or anything like that, just make it so when someone finishes their sentence they are not worse than when they entered prison.
But dey promised not to do it no mo’!
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