I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
I don't believe we should allow thousands of violent felons to be released early from prison, nor do I believe we should reduce sentences for violent offenders in the future.
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
Even though the Clintons started mass incarceration, which my brother is a victim of, things are going to change, though. Somebody made them do that.
Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.
I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.