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Originally Posted by SunnySide

I wish Fox News would expand on that and lay it out without doing a 7 word drive by and not explain exactly how.

I found a good Atlantic article below. Seems not using sentencing enhancement for weapons was one the policy changes. Like the article points out, the success stories of people not getting longer sentences and then not becoming a repeat offender are hard to quantify and dont get spotlighted but stories like the one Fox News is spotlighting get attention.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ecalls/629701/

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I personally think sentence enhancement for weapons should be in play but I do worry about the discretionary use by states attorneys. Discretionary use can lead to discrimatory use ... and that is part of the systemic racism.

I do think we need to incarcerate misdemeanors less, have better programs and assistance .. and get away from private for profit jails.

Putting more people behind bars and for longer is not the answer.

24 US States individually led the world/any country in highest incarceration per capita.

That is fucking crazy. And its dominated by southern jail for profit States where it is systemic racism of a pipeline from states attorney to judge to private jailer.

We dont need more people in jail.

we dont need private for profit jails.

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If we imagine every state as an independent nation, as in the graph above, every state appears extreme. 24 states would have the highest incarceration rate in the world — higher even than the United States. Massachusetts, the state with the lowest incarceration rate in the nation, would rank 17th in the world with an incarceration rate higher than Iran, Colombia, and all the founding NATO nations.

In fact, many of the countries that rank alongside the least punitive U.S. states, such as Turkey, Thailand, Rwanda, and Russia, have authoritarian governments or have recently experienced large-scale internal armed conflicts. Others struggle with “violent crime”
on a scale far beyond that in the U.S.: South Africa, Panama, Costa Rica, and Brazil all have murder rates more than double that of the U.S. Yet the U.S., “the land of the free,” tops them all.

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/...SAAEgLz1PD_BwE

Putting the right people in jail for longer is the answer. Every day you can read stories of someone that has been arrested 22 previous times that shockingly, yet again commits another crime. We need to stop letting real criminals out of prison before serving the appropriate time.

I'm all for private enterprise over government, when at all possible. But for-profit jails will always be a problem. The people that are involved in illegally using "pipelines" can and should be put in jail with the above mentioned people. Those people must pay the price for their wrongs against others, like any other criminal should. Will not be easy, because the same people that need to be arrested are part of the system involved in arresting people, but it needs to be done.