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Justice Department about to free 6,000 prisoners, largest one-time release
Washington Post ^ | 10/06/2015 | Sari Horwitz

Posted on 10/06/2015 10:42:14 AM PDT by GIdget2004

The Justice Department is set to release about 6,000 inmates early from prison — the largest ever one-time release of federal prisoners — in an effort to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades.

The inmates from federal prisons nationwide will be set free by the department’s Bureau of Prisons between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2. Most of them will go to halfway houses and home confinement before being put on supervised release.

The early release follows action by the U.S. Sentencing Commission — an independent agency that sets sentencing policies for federal crimes — which reduced the potential punishment for future drug offenders last year and then made that change retroactive.

The commission’s action is separate from an effort by President Obama to grant clemency to certain nonviolent drug offenders, an initiative that has resulted in 89 inmates being released early.

The panel estimated that its change in sentencing guidelines eventually could result in 46,000 of the nation’s approximately 100,000 drug offenders in federal prison qualifying for early release. The 6,000 figure, which has not been reported previously, is the first tranche in that process.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: criminals; doj; inmates; prisoners
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1 posted on 10/06/2015 10:42:14 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

clowns to the left of me, jokers to my right ...


2 posted on 10/06/2015 10:43:28 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: GIdget2004

What could possibly go wrong?

Don’t forget that gun ban.


3 posted on 10/06/2015 10:44:01 AM PDT by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: knarf

x cons all around


4 posted on 10/06/2015 10:44:18 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: GIdget2004

Just in time for elections...


5 posted on 10/06/2015 10:44:42 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: GIdget2004

Is this to ease the news dump for December 2016 when bammy pardons thousands (tens of thousands?)?


6 posted on 10/06/2015 10:47:48 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: kingu

What makes drug dealing a non-violent crime? Drug dealers kill one another on a daily basis then plea bargain.


7 posted on 10/06/2015 10:49:35 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: C210N

Pardoning is one thing, wait till he gives em jobs with guns!


8 posted on 10/06/2015 10:49:51 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: GIdget2004

All part of the calculated plan. How the politically-blind remain so in this country is beyond me.


9 posted on 10/06/2015 10:50:55 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: GIdget2004

How many of the +/50K felons released in the last year know how or have used a gun?


10 posted on 10/06/2015 10:52:44 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: GIdget2004

Mexies

Syrians

Thugs


11 posted on 10/06/2015 10:54:03 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: GIdget2004

Timed to coincide with the arrival of millions of reptiles from the middle east.
Continuing the fundamental transformation of the country.


12 posted on 10/06/2015 10:54:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: GIdget2004

Test run. Watch and see how many felons he’ll set free in January of 2017 as he prepares to leave office.

If for no other reason except to eff Americans in the *** one more time.


13 posted on 10/06/2015 10:55:15 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: GIdget2004

In some of this there is a legitimate effort to obtain fairness for those people who were sent to prison with enhanced sentences for crack cocaine (which are mostly black people) while those people who traded in identical amounts of flake cocaine (mostly white people) received significantly lesser sentences even though the drugs they traded were the same thing: cocaine.

I agree that the penalties for trading cocaine should be the same regardless of the form of the cocaine.


14 posted on 10/06/2015 10:57:24 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: GIdget2004
Reminds me of a scene in Blazing Saddles where Hedley Lamarr is hiring every cutthroat thug he can find to ride down on Rock Ridge. . . .
15 posted on 10/06/2015 11:01:53 AM PDT by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: GIdget2004

Hundreds plus more gun crimes on the way, at which point this administration will trash guns and not repetitive felons on the streets.

Gotta appreciate their tactics, and the media that remains silent in the face of the obvious.


16 posted on 10/06/2015 11:04:06 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: GIdget2004

bump


17 posted on 10/06/2015 11:04:29 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: GIdget2004
I guess they need to make lots more room to put the newly minted criminals who won't obey their new gun "laws".

That's you and me. I don't want to bunk with a lot of Mexicans, Muzzies, and dopers anyhow...

18 posted on 10/06/2015 11:04:42 AM PDT by Gritty (The question is not will Muslim migrants kill Americans but how many will they kill?-D.Greenfield)
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To: GIdget2004

I guess we need a new chapter in the law books called Social Justice.


19 posted on 10/06/2015 11:14:59 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: GIdget2004

6,000 drug dealers back on the streets. In Asia they execute them.


20 posted on 10/06/2015 11:20:27 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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