Posted on 05/16/2016 10:41:11 AM PDT by detective
Backers of the criminal justice reform bill pending in Congress are intent on reducing the population of the federal prisons.
Their premise? Prisons are overflowing with minor drug offenders who have no reason to be incarcerated mass incarceration is the term they like to use.
As many have pointed out, that premise is a lie. Less than one percent of the federal prison population is there for drug possession, and most of those pled down from a more serious offense. But the left is intent on releasing prisoners anyway mostly before their sentences run. Those to be let out, since there are so few minor offenders, are often violent multiple offenders, many of whom will start committing more crimes as soon as they are released.
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Also, keep in mind that the problem actually gets worse when you factor out minority populations, because then our comparables are now other almost-all-white countries like Denmark (61 per 100k incarceration rate), Sweden (60), Finland (57), France (100), Germany (78), Belgium (105), etc.
A “normal” incarceration rate for a Western country populated mostly by white people is 100 per 100k capita or less. We are at 380 for white people alone.
Are you ready to concede that this country has an excessive incarceration problem?
Elites live in gated communities.
It’s the disappearing middle class that’s worried about crime.
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