[knarf]

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

[Crazieman]

What could possibly go wrong?

Don’t forget that gun ban.

[kingu]

Just in time for elections...

[C210N]

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

[SaveFerris]

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

[combat_boots]

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

[gaijin]

Mexies

Syrians

Thugs

[I want the USA back]

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

[Responsibility2nd]

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.

[MeganC]

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.

[RatRipper]

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. . . .

[DoughtyOne]

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.

[God luvs America]

bump

[Gritty]

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...

[TexasCajun]

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

[kaehurowing]

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

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Is this for real???

[zeestephen]

I read the entire article.

A key fact is missing.

96% of Federal inmates accept a plea deal.

In other words, about 96% of the people being released pleaded guilty because they feared they might be convicted on a more serious charge if they went to trial.

Many - perhaps most - of the “mandatory” sentences that are reported here were imposed AFTER the inmate violated the terms of his original plea deal in some way.

[PAR35]

So much for the ‘no federal parole’ rule.

[Wolfie]

I don’t see how we can be the Land of the Free if we’re not locking up as many people as possible.