Posted on 03/28/2019 5:48:28 AM PDT by deplorableindc
Catherine Toney began February in prison and ended the month with a job at Walmart after White House adviser Jared Kushner called the Arkansas-based retailer on her behalf.
Toney, 55, is believed to be the first woman freed by the First Step Act, which President Trump signed in December. She was released Feb. 1 after serving 16 years, benefiting from the law's retroactive crack cocaine sentence reductions.
Toney will join Trump on Monday for an event celebrating the criminal justice reform law, his first major bipartisan policy achievement. Other recently released inmates were invited to attend.
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Sure, she could Jared’s banking for him?
If you feel so bad, you need to blame the president for this.
The whole guv official calling a biz for such favors thing makes me queasy.
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I’m not on board with the concept either. The government should not be doing anything to favor specific individuals just because they can be used to push an agenda.
Exactly.
I doubt President Trump would think releasing cons from prison was a big priority if not the liberals in his family.
Lots of negative waves on this thread, Moriarity
What would you say if a relative of the president in the Obama administration had done something similiar telling the business to hire someone for the purposes of pushing an agenda? Would you have been OK with that?
I believe this is the same lady you are referencing....
Lots of negative waves on this thread, Moriarity
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Not really. Just consistency in principles.
I have tried to help cons get jobs, apartments, cars, etc. and it always works out the same.
They wind up right back in prison for the same thing that sent them there in the first place.
Drugs, booze, lazy, stupid,...the list is endless. They just can’t function in society.
Because she lives in Daphne, AL. She wants to live where her family is, and she asked him to give her a job recommendation at Walmart. So he did. She will now have to prove herself in the workplace.
Honestly, I see nothing wrong with helping others.
Our prison population needs to be reintegrated into society. It is best done with people willing to share, explicit or implicit, responsibility for the actions of such persons.
Welfare should be handled from person to person, too.
Such as former drug abuser Mike Lindell?
I’m not sure why the negativity here... sometimes these efforts work out. The woman is now in a productive job... how about we see first how she does before we assume she’ll fail?
I don’t know the man.
Yep!
Why such hate?
I have tried to help them. They screw up again every time.
I have tried to help them. They screw up again every time.
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