Another DOJ/Obama Prison Break: 6,000 to be Freed in Largest One-Time Release Ever

by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton | October 6, 2015 2:36 pm

The DOJ and Obama are prepping another prison break.[1] This time, over 6,000 inmates will be set loose on our streets. They are giving a get out of jail free card to drug and narcotic offenders. It promotes lawlessness and will increase crime dramatically. This is endangering the public pure and simple. These people are in prison for a reason. I would imagine many of these are illegal aliens. On that note, the DOJ is saying those that are illegal will be immediately deported. What a joke! They aren’t deporting anyone much less criminals. You watch, next they’ll be giving felons the right to vote. It’s coming. This will be the largest one-time release ever, but there is an even bigger one coming soon for over 8,000. You know why this went through? Because our esteemed political leaders did nothing. They just let it be and now we will have hot and cold running felons all over the place. Just peachy.

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From The Washington Post:

The Justice Department is set to release about 6,000 inmates early from prison — the largest ever one-time release of federal prisoners — in an effort to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades.

The inmates from federal prisons nationwide will be set free by the department’s Bureau of Prisons between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2. Most of them will go to halfway houses and home confinement before being put on supervised release.

The early release follows action by the U.S. Sentencing Commission — an independent agency that sets sentencing policies for federal crimes — which reduced the potential punishment for future drug offenders last year and then made that change retroactive.

The commission’s action is separate from an effort by President Obama[3] to grant clemency to certain nonviolent drug offenders, an initiative that has resulted in 89 inmates being released early.

The panel estimated that its change in sentencing guidelines eventually could result in 46,000 of the nation’s approximately 100,000 drug offenders in federal prison qualifying for early release. The 6,000 figure, which has not been reported previously, is the first tranche in that process.

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The Sentencing Commission estimated that an additional 8,550 inmates will be eligible for release between this Nov. 1 and Nov. 1, 2016.

The releases are part of a shift in the nation’s approach to criminal justice and drug sentencing. Along with the commission’s action, the Justice Department has instructed its prosecutors not to charge low-level, nonviolent drug offenders who have no connection to gangs or large-scale drug organizations with offenses that carry severe mandatory sentences.

The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously[4] for the reduction last year after holding two public hearings in which they heard testimony from former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr., federal judges, federal public defenders, state and local law enforcement officials, and sentencing advocates. The panel also received more than 80,000 public comment letters with the overwhelming majority favoring the change.

Congress did not act to disapprove the change to the sentencing guidelines, so it became effective on Nov. 1, 2014. The commission then gave the Justice Department a year to prepare for the huge release of inmates.

The policy change is referred to as “Drugs Minus Two.” Federal sentencing guidelines rely on a numeric system based on different factors, including the defendant’s criminal history, the type of crime, whether a gun was involved and whether the defendant was a leader in a drug group.

The sentencing panel’s change decreased the value attached to most drug-trafficking offenses by two levels, regardless of the type of drug or the amount.

An average of about two years is being shaved off eligible prisoners’ sentences under the change. Although some of the inmates who will be released have served decades, on average they will have served 8 1/2 years instead of 10 1/2 , according to a Justice Department official.

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In each case, inmates must petition a judge who decides whether to grant the sentencing reduction. Judges nationwide are granting about 70 sentence reductions per week, Justice officials said. Some of the inmates already have been sent to halfway houses.

In some cases, federal judges have denied inmates’ requests for early release. For example, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth recently denied requests from two top associates of Rayful Edmond III, one of the District’s most notorious drug kingpins.

Federal prosecutors did not oppose a request by defense lawyers to have the associates, Melvin D. Butler and James Antonio Jones, released early in November. But last month Lamberth denied the request[5], which would have cut about two years from each man’s projected 28 1/2 -year sentence.

“The court struggles to understand how the government could condone the release of Butler and Jones, each convicted of high-level, sophisticated and violent drug-trafficking offenses,” Lamberth wrote. The Edmond group imported as much as 1,700 pounds of Colombian cocaine a month into the city in the 1980s, according to court papers.

Critics, including some federal prosecutors, judges and police officials, have raised concerns that allowing so many inmates to be released at the same time could cause crime to increase.

But Justice officials said that about one-third of the inmates who will be released in a few weeks are foreign citizens who will be quickly deported.

They also pointed to a study last year that found that the recidivism rate for offenders who were released early after changes in crack-cocaine sentencing guidelines in 2007 was not significantly different from offenders who completed their sentences.

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Last week, a group of senators introduced a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill[6], the first such legislation in decades. Although some advocates say it doesn’t go far enough, the measure, which is supported by a coalition that includes the Koch brothers and the American Civil Liberties Union[7], would shorten the length of mandatory-minimum drug sentences that were part of the tough-on-crime laws passed during the war on drugs in the 1980s and 1990s.

If passed by Congress and signed by Obama, the reforms would apply retroactively, allowing inmates who were previously incarcerated under mandatory minimums an opportunity for release.

It wasn’t just liberal Progressives who pushed this through. The Koch Brothers, Freedom Works and the American Civil Liberties Union played a big, big part in this shortening of the length of prison sentences and prison reform legislation. Remember that when the unintended consequences kick in as they surely will. Judges are just shaking their heads at how the government can just release hardcore drug dealers and users this way. The reason for all this? Well, at least from the Marxist perspective, it is to create mayhem and chaos on the streets. It also rigs the vote if they get their way. They say that recidivism won’t be high. Don’t make me laugh. Of course it will be… then again, they just might not be arrested again and be allowed to ply their poison to their black heart’s content. Those foreign citizens will go to gangs and bring in more and more drugs. They’ll murder and rape at will. This lawlessness will just keep spiraling out of control under the tender mercies of the Obama Administration. America truly needs a conservative to come in and stop all this insanity and fast.

Endnotes:
  1. The DOJ and Obama are prepping another prison break.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-about-to-free-6000-prisoners-largest-one-time-release/2015/10/06/961f4c9a-6ba2-11e5-aa5b-f78a98956699_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-national
  2. [Image]: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Prison-e1444155359692.jpg
  3. effort by President Obama: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-commutes-sentences-of-46-non-violent-drug-offenders/2015/07/13/b533f61e-2974-11e5-a250-42bd812efc09_story.html
  4. voted unanimously: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/thousands-of-felons-could-have-drug-sentences-lessened/2014/07/18/4876209e-0eb1-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html
  5. denied the request: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/judge-denies-early-release-for-partners-of-dc-drug-kingpin-rayful-edmond/2015/09/16/4d679e3c-5af7-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html
  6. criminal justice reform bill: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/10/01/senators-unveil-long-awaited-compromise-on-criminal-justice-reform/
  7. the Koch brothers and the American Civil Liberties Union: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/08/15/clemency-the-issue-that-obama-and-the-koch-brothers-actually-agree-on/

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