US Sentencing Commission could act to reduce prison time for thousands | RTB
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- On April 27, 2023, the United States Sentencing Commission submitted to Congress amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines that would recommend lower sentences for certain defendants. If these changes are applied retroactively, some 18,775 people in federal prison could become eligible for a sentencing reduction-including 3,288 individuals who could be eligible for immediate release. Mary Price of Families Against Mandatory Minimums joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the proposed amendments and what they could mean for thousands of prisoners and their families.
Mary Price is General Counsel of FAMM. She directs the FAMM Litigation Project and advocates for reform of federal sentencing and corrections law and policy before Congress, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of Justice.
Public comments can be made through FAMM’s website: famm.org/usscc...
The deadline for submitting public comments is June 23, 2023.
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I was coming of age when these "Mandatory Minimum Sentences" and lost a couple friends to it over petty drug charges. Absolutely destroyed my friend who went in at 20 and came out at 32. He just couldn't adapt to a world that left him behind for 12 years on a 20 year sentence. Most country's don't incarcerate for that long for horrible crimes. Ain't that 'Murica for you and me. Ain't that 'Murica something to see 🇺🇸
You should see what East Asian countries do to drug offenders
@@qjtvaddict So what? I apologize for sounding rude; but, by that logic, we shouldn't want our own citizens to be paid more than a pittance per day, because Asian sweatshops exist. Nor should we expect our children to be free from sexual predation, because of rampant child trafficking in Thailand. It's shitty logic.
It's tragic and criminal to do that to human beings
Thailand doesn’t tolerate drugs…way harsher
Thailand doesn’t tolerate drugs…way harsher
This is huge. Thanks for your info.
increased time incarcerated due to past record is sentencing twice for the same crime, and so goes way beyond even the constitutional ban on double jeopardy, which means just being put in jeopardy- danger- of being punished twice for the same crime.
it also a total denial of due process-- no arrest, no charges, no trial, no conviction for the extra time you're incarcerated for.
In ri where I am if you violate probation no matter what you are put back in jail or given more time. Even if the circumstances leading to the violation were inaccurate or mistakes and shouldnt have been there at all
True story. On the same day, a judge sentenced two people. One sold $250 worth of weed twice. The second person beat the F out of an elderly woman. The judge was mandated to give the pot dealer a longer sentence. The judge was livid. He saw the injustice, but the state gave him orders. I read it in a jailhouse newspaper.
This sick system!
My boyfriend who is 62 yrs is serving a mm sentence in az. He was only a passenger in a vehicle. This sentence has drastically changed his elderly father's life and health. He retired from a job he worked for 31 yrs and never been in trouble a day in his life...his dad will probably die without him.
Thank you, Mansa Musa, for having Nancy Price on this important discussion. ❤
These laws help all of us to understand better what is happening in our prison system and Congress has done in the past and what it holds for the future. Racial justice for all.
Thank you, again Ms. Price.
Good "call to action" near the end. Thank you!
I wish I knew!!! Before the deadline 🤦🏾♀️
Glad to hear this! Are people still going to prison for selling or using mj?
Yes
Not in Delaware!!
Or Maryland
Or Pennsylvania
Or new jersey
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FINALLY
Not enough people released. Time 10 and I'll be satisfied. Especially no violent and drug possession.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 It seems to me we tend to arrest people and we forget where they went. Find them they are still with us. They don't disappear. There are many organizations out there that will help, use them.😊
the criminal justice "systems" NEEDS "INVESTIGATING""INVESTIGATION""INVESTIGATING".....JAIL for what lead to "WRONG" doing.....ijs
yea thats all we need
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Good!
Release them. At their advanced age, they won't really be a threat to anyone. As a bonus, taxpayers won't have to foot the bill for continued detainment and medical care. Prisons should not become de-facto retirement homes. I firmly believe starting at age 67 (current official retirement age) prisoners should be released when they are least able to do anymore harm. This would greatly unburden the system and taxpayers.
The savings alone would greatly assist in helping the prison industrial complex go green and archive net-zero status.
Well, those unemployment numbers about to rise.
Exactly! And in the coming era of hyper-automation and artificial intelligence in the workplace. Who's going to risk hiring ex convicts? Even tax breaks won't be enough to entice employers.
Here comes more crime......😀😀😀😀 Gun sales go up for victims protection...lol
Good news.
Really think about how many jobs would be affected if there was less or no crime. Unfortunately we can talk till we are blue in the face but if your broke or uneducated and obviously race is and was always a target…..your screwed. It makes me angry.
Mansa musa ❤
Our "forefathers" set us up: This is Section 1 of Virginia Declaration of Rights. It predates the Constitution for the United States:
"That all [flesh-and-blood] men [and women] are by nature [created by God] equally free and independent [personal sovereignty], and have certain inherent [natural, God-given] rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society [legal definition of society is a collective organization of corporations; ie fictitious entities; ie the matrix], they cannot, by any compact [contract] deprive or divest their posterity [of such rights, only themselves]; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."
The bill of rights only applies to people; men and women. The word "person" is defined as a corporation, when you are a member of society; i.e., person, individual, us citizen, driver, taxpayer, etc etc etc, it is the avatar that exists in society, avatars have privileges because only flesh-and-blood people can have natural rights. technically, we have no constitutional rights because the constitution merely Affirms natural rights, whatever "constitutional" rights there are have been statutized into privileges for the avatar.
When a baby is born, the bankrupt US Govt creates a corporation using the baby's name in all capital letters. it then uses the corporation as collateral to get a loan from the (private front company) federal reserve represented as federal reserve notes "dollars". People are the sureties for the "US citizen" corporation. Debt is transferred to people this way, police are revenue enforcers of the bankruptcy. This is the legal framework of our ensalvement since 1933. we went from the gold standard to the private faith and credit/future performance of the american people, that's why she called Neo "coppertop", our energy is being stolen.
"The validity of the public debt of the United States...shall not be questioned."
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Section 4
also, when cops ask you something, ask them if they are making a request or demand. if a request, you can deny the request, if they are making a demand, there is a statute that gives the officer the authority to make such a demand. every crime is a commercial crime since it has value for the creditors of the bankrupt gov. attorneys ensure that debt gets transferred. People in prison are collateral for municipal bonds.
Cops aren't taught, they are trained.
Rights are nothing mean nothing unless you assert them.
We don't have constitutional rights, we have natural rights.
People are flesh and blood men and women; persons are fictitious entities.
We are conditioned to believe lies while we are led to the slaughterhouse.
Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing who lie and deceive. They operate in secret because they know they can be defeated. They will use logic to try to convince us that good is evil and evil is good since the mind can be tricked. They will exploit negative emotions of fear and anger to try and divide us so they can conquer us. In reality, they are afraid of our unitive potential to put them out of material power.
There’s a lot going on in the world today. We may be inspired, encouraged, told the truth about things but hardly anyone is addressing what we can actually do to positively change the course of human events. We do it by creating a synergy using sympathetic resonance of our positive emotions of our heart chakra.
That's a very interesting perception. A lot of it has a ring of truth but I'm not a constitutional scholar and I haven't studied it as much as I probably should. Very interesting though 👍
All prisons should be abolished. There is no need whatsoever for them. Prisons are a tool of control rulers use against the oppressed. Very very few are psychopaths and those few are free to run for office, where they will find their kin.
hi mr musa, i love you brother
i hear that how old i will be before i am allowed to see real ppl and love again....
bad ppl like biggie rich still steeling....
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We have successfully standardized incarceration. Thanks for monetizing the criminal justice system
Just an excuse to loot the treasury.
They have to make room for Donald Trump