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  • First Step: Pro-Cop, Pro-Borders, Pro-Criminal Justice Reform

    11/21/2018 5:39:28 AM PST · by Kaslin · 2 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 21, 2018 | MIchelle Malkin
    The package of criminal justice reform proposals endorsed by President Donald Trump is not "soft" on crime. It's tough on injustice. And it's about time. Known as the "First Step Act," the legislation confronts the Titanic failure of the federal government's trillion-dollar war on drugs by reforming mandatory minimum sentences, rectifying unscientifically grounded disparities in criminal penalties for crack vs. powder cocaine users, and tackling recidivism among federal inmates through risk assessment, earned-time credit incentive structures, re-entry programs and transitional housing. There's nothing radical about giving law-breakers who served their time an opportunity to turn their lives around and avoid...
  • Trump says he will overrule Jeff Sessions on prison reform

    10/11/2018 6:44:41 AM PDT · by deplorableindc · 49 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | Oct. 11, 2018
    President Trump said Thursday that he supports prison reform and that Attorney General Jeff Sessions' opposition doesn't represent his administration's position. "If he doesn't [support reform], then he gets overruled by me. Because I make the decision, he doesn't," Trump said during a phone interview broadcast on "Fox and Friends." Sessions, an opponent of criminal justice reform, argues the pending First Step Act would make the country less safe, threatening one of the top priorities of presidential adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.