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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Rich Benjamin @ NewYorker.com, May 24
[....] Last month, Jared Kushner announced the Administration’s support for the bill in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, writing that the six million Americans in local and federal prisons are included among “the forgotten men and women” that Trump vowed to fight for during his Presidential campaign.. “Get a bill to my desk, and I will sign it,” Trump promised. The House passed the bill this week.
The Administration’s push for reform, though, is deeply dividing Washington on a rare issue of bipartisan agreement in the Trump era. The approach backed by Trump and Kushner in the First Step Act is limited in scope and focussed on giving current inmates a “second chance” by promoting reëntry programs—so-called “back end” reforms. In an unusual political alliance, the congressmen Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from Brooklyn, and Doug Collins, a Republican from Georgia, are co-sponsoring the bill.
A second, more ambitious reform proposal, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, aims to ease prison overpopulation through sentencing reform. These “front end” reforms would reduce mandatory-minimum sentences, restore judges’ discretion regarding sentencing, and end the three-strikes rule.
Like the First Step Act, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act has bipartisan political support [....]