Posted on 04/05/2013 2:35:04 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Attorney General Eric Holder expressed concern Thursday evening that black men are unfairly served with longer prison sentences than white men and that Americas prison system demands overhaul.
Too many people go to too many prisons for far too long for no good law enforcement reason, Mr. Holder said, in remarks to the Rev. Al Sharptons National Action Network in New York, Politico reported. It is time to ask ourselves some fundamental questions about our criminal justice system. It is time to examine our systems and determine what truly works.
Mr. Holder said in the Politico report that state laws oftentimes require sentences that are too harsh for the specific case and that breed[s] disrespect for the court system. He also referred to a report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission released in February and said figures show that blacks are being disproportionately prosecuted and sentenced.
I am concerned by a troubling report
which indicates that in recent years black male offenders have received sentences that are nearly 20 percent longer than those imposed on white males convicted of similar crimes, he said, Politico reported.
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Holder should be in jail FOREVER!
It’s called mandatory sentencing.
You guys wanted a standard system that would apply to everyone, equally, under the law.
Judges don’t really have discretion anymore.
Why that’s just horrible!
How can they put all of Obama’s sons in prison?
Let Holder’s People go!
Whitey just gonna have to suck it up!
Holder can kiss my pastey white...
Reminds me of the school district in Mew Mexico than announced a policy where white kids would get harsher punishments than minority kids for the same infractions.
Documentation File on the negative impact of the Obamanation Counterculture on America.
this F-in racist asshole should have been forced out right after the black panthers, how much more racism can the DOJ do to this country?
build more prisons...put them...the criminals....away for longer times...
Attorney General Eric Holder expressed concern Thursday evening that black men are unfairly served with longer prison sentences than white men and that Americas prison system demands overhaul.
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So what Mr. My People is saying is that we should empty out the prisons and let violent criminals go back to the ghettos and rob and murder more black people.
The KKK could not devise a better plan.
“black male offenders have received sentences that are nearly 20 percent longer than those imposed on white males convicted of similar crimes”
I’m sure to unravel this mystery, one only needs to determine exactly how “similar” the circumstances are.
Blacks are 13% of the population, commit over 50% of gun homicides and I have to give up my 2nd amendment rights because I can’t be trusted to own guns.
I’ll be in favor of cutting jail time based on skin color if we can also cut the terms of political office-holders based on skin color.
The Department of Just-Us strikes again.
The country saves money, society doesn't suffer by having them released to kill or rob again, and the prisoners get out prison free and get a brand new adventure in the next dimension.
TRANSLATION: To the disgruntled, the status quo means being kept in poverty, subjugated and marginalized while others are elevated and prosper.
(Needless to say, they have no idea how democracy works---and how all of our rights contribute to the creation of wealth and one's social status.
Absent from neighborhood grousing is that some people are simply smarter than other people---thus, they advance and prosper within the framework of freedom.
Others take the easy way out and turn to crime---that's why they're in jail.)
Jail time for those certain blacks (and whites) engaged in gun running and incinerating children in gun control raids is way too short.
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