These are embarrassing times for the nation's criminal justice system; as the Obama administration executes the nation's largest mass release of federal prisoners, it's sending a Long Island fisherman to jail for reeling in too many...
Back in 2010 resident Obama signed a measure that for the first time in decades relaxed drug-crime sentences he claimed discriminated against poor and minority offenders. This severely weakened a decades-old law enacted during the infamous crack cocaine epidemic that ravaged urban communities nationwide in the 1980s.
As part of the movement the U.S. Sentencing Commission lowered maximum sentences for drug offenders and made it retroactive. Last week the administration started releasing the first wave of 6,000 drug convicts who will get out of jail early. In all, about 50,000 prisoners are eligible for early release ... Federal prosecutors have warned that drug trafficking is inherently violent and therefore the phrase "non-violent drug offenders" is a misnomer. The nation's prosecutors also caution that reducing prison sentences for drug offenders will weaken their ability to bring dangerous drug traffickers to justice.
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Last week the New York fisherman got sentenced to seven months in prison, a $603,000 fine and three years of supervised release following incarceration ... Is it possible that the country is safer because a fish fraudster is in jail ... while drug convicts roam freely?
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