[Pining_4_TX]

B...S...

How about let’s hear some names and crimes of these poor souls supposedly sent to prison for minor crimes? Does the hood really want these guys back in their neighborhoods selling drugs, doing drive-bys, etc.?

So nice of rich politicians to be concerned about this. These thugs won’t be moving in next door to them, although I think that would be dandy.

[donna]

We aren't a moral people if we send anyone to prison to be raped and abused as punishment for their crime.

[elpadre]

Is it safe to say the racial mix of prisoners reflects the racial mix of those who commit crimes??? That being the case, what is there to fix???

[spintreebob]

If my math is right, there are no Hispanics in Federal Prison? I smell somebody playing with statistics.

[Ammo Republic 15]

Yes, I believe in prison reform and here are my rules.

Nothing but bologna, bread and water to eat.

Working the fields or quarries from sunup till sundown 6 days a week. One day of rest.

No TV’s, only the KJV Bible to read.

A strap across the back for any serious infraction.

I could come up with more but you probably get the point. Prisons should be of the sort that no person would NEVER want to go back again!

[zeestephen]

Pro-reform advocates ALWAYS make the same misrepresentations and omissions...

96% of federal defendants plead guilty to a lesser charge!

Got that? Almost all these folks pleaded guilty, and they knew exactly what their sentence was going to be.

This is pure race-based political pandering by Trump and Pence.

If there are people in federal prison who have been treated unfairly, Trump can pardon them or commute their sentence.

But releasing thousands of people who pleaded guilty?

Shameful!

And hundreds of completely innocent citizens will be harmed by the criminals that Trump and Pence send back to the streets.

[zeestephen]

By the way...

I forgot to mention that approximately one third of federal inmates are illegal immigrants!

Most of them have been arrested for violent crimes, drug crimes, identity theft, and fraudulently obtaining billions of dollars from welfare programs and the Earned Income Tax Credit.

[ronnie raygun]

Prison reform..........make a deal with Russia to build prisons in Siberia and pay to have them built and run.

[Elsie]

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 37.8 percent of prison inmates in the U.S. are black, 58.3 percent white, 2.3 percent Native American and 1.6 percent Asian. Yet, blacks are arrested more, charged more, sentenced more harshly and confined to prison longer, even for minor infractions.

I doubt PRISON reform will change much.

Don't they REALLY mean COURT reform?

[Elsie]

Georgia stepped up its GED program and job training.

Why not KEEP them in school to begin with?

(Since our 'schools' are becoming more and more like prisons anyway.)