Posted on 04/24/2016 3:40:26 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Keeping 2.2 million Americans in prison is hurting the economy, President Obama said Saturday in his weekly address, describing a report that outlines those arguments.
The move is part of a federal effort to rally support for an effort by the Obama Administration to reduce the number of people in prison and to help them once they are released. The administration will announce the steps next week during what has been dubbed “National Reentry Week,” from April 24-28.
“This isn’t just about what makes economic and practical sense. It’s about making sure that we live up to our ideals as a nation,” Obama said.
Among the new programs being rolled out, the Obama administration said one will include a plan to help individuals with criminal records compete for federal jobs. The White House said it will also double down on its call for businesses to show favor to the 600,000 people released from prison every year.
"Now, plenty of people should be behind bars. But the reason we have so many more people in prison than any other developed country is not because we have more criminals. It's because we have criminal justice policies, including unfair sentencing laws, that need to be reformed," Obama said.
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The disaster this fool is going to leave behind him will be like no other since James Buchanan left office.
releasing prisoner’s will help the gun industry that’s for sure.
Keeping Obama in office is hurting the economy.
Affirmative action for criminals. Hire them or face fines.
We need people to break windows and redistribute other people’s good so they have to pay fix windows and pay for new stuff to stimulate the economy...
The man is criminally insane.
Maybe he should be institutionalized.
I don’t know about this plan by Obama.. but we do put way, way too many people in jail...
Not so many, eh Obunga? No more than what work among the yet to be jailed.
Just another transparent attempt by this anal orifice to pack the democrat voter rolls. His Mexican feint is stalling, got to try Plan B.
I’ve always thought we lock up too many people, and especially a lot of the wrong kinds of people.
Having said that, look what the gov of Virginia just did... ‘restoring voting rights to 200,000 felons’ .. just in time for them to vote in the national election~!!
just saying,, there is probably a right way and then a wrong (politically-crooked) way to fix any prison problem
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There’s a multi-billion dollar industry dependent on keeping those people in jail.
These people are called prisoners. They are there for a reason, punishment for a crime deemed to have been severe enough to warrant time looking at striped sunlight. No, the justice system is not biased against minorities. More minorities are in prison because more minorities commit crimes warranting time behind bars.
I loathe this Marxist piece of filth. How long before the White House can be disinfected and decontaminated?
Putting Dorkbama the Muslim in prison would definitely help the economy.
Maybe he just doesn’t realize how STUPID he sounds.
They’d make great brownshirts.
Our economy is in a world of hurt but the jailbirds in prison are not the reason. It is the ought-to-be jailbird living in the WH who is the primary cause of the hurt. Lock him up and things will turn around.
The world’s first Keynesian criminal stimulus program.
Release criminals into the economy to stimulate consumer spending primarily in the illegal pharmaceutical area.His notion of having them compete for federal jobs may spike the competition with his plan to have illegals compete for them after he takes them “out of the shadows”.
guess if he will not put a barrier between us and the rest of the world, he believes no barriers are needed for the trash of society.
Except for him, of course.
He will never surrender his own defense, as we are the little people.
Hurting the Economy? Sure, they can break and steal stuff, which would then need to be replaced. Not to mention an increase in funerals. Think of it as a Stimulus!
I’m sure he plans to pardon many of them just in time to vote for the Nov election.
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