The letter noted that the US has disproportionately incarcerated people of color, low-income individuals, members of the LGBTQ+ community and those with disabilities, and that 90% of the federal prison population was convicted on non-violent offenses.
What are you talking about? If the rich and the powerful get justice why not the rest of us too? Since when has justice been too broad?
That’s kind of exactly my point. 90% is still a lot of people and I doubt the database of federal inmates has an “unjustly prosecuted” filter. But there are some non-violent white collar criminals who absolutely belong in prison (including about half of Trump’s advisors) so there needs to be something to focus on like marijuana possession or whistleblowers or something else that can narrow the scope.
Despite these actions, the Last Prisoner Project (LPP) notes in a statement that Biden “has yet to release a single person still incarcerated for cannabis through commutation.” Although the pardons granted relief to thousands of people with a conviction on their records, the president’s clemency actions did not address the approximately 3,000 individuals serving time in federal prisons for cannabis related offenses.
Right. He timidly only pardoned the ones who were already out. Because incrementalism is about doing as little as you think you can get away with and demanding everyone act like you solved the whole problem.
Cannabis is still schedule I and these people are still in prison.
Yes. And I’m saying that a “case-by-case” analysis of “nonviolent offenses” is impossible in two months and if he wants anything to happen he needs to narrow the scope because non violent is not the same as victimless. The drug offenses you mentioned seem like a fine place to start.
It’s also entirely too broad to mean much of anything.
What are you talking about? If the rich and the powerful get justice why not the rest of us too? Since when has justice been too broad?
That’s kind of exactly my point. 90% is still a lot of people and I doubt the database of federal inmates has an “unjustly prosecuted” filter. But there are some non-violent white collar criminals who absolutely belong in prison (including about half of Trump’s advisors) so there needs to be something to focus on like marijuana possession or whistleblowers or something else that can narrow the scope.
Here you go.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajherrington/2024/11/26/nonprofit-group-calls-on-biden-to-pardon-cannabis-prisoners/
So all the “he pardoned weed offenses” was just as much of a lie as “he rescheduled cannabis.”
No, it just means he didn’t pardon all weed offenses.
cough of already released people cough
Right. He timidly only pardoned the ones who were already out. Because incrementalism is about doing as little as you think you can get away with and demanding everyone act like you solved the whole problem.
Cannabis is still schedule I and these people are still in prison.
That sounds like a great place to start; it also wasn’t mentioned in the headline, summary, or original article.
The article was about what Hakeem Jeffries thinks Biden should do.
Yes. And I’m saying that a “case-by-case” analysis of “nonviolent offenses” is impossible in two months and if he wants anything to happen he needs to narrow the scope because non violent is not the same as victimless. The drug offenses you mentioned seem like a fine place to start.
It’s not impossible, but it would be interesting to know why you think that.
Because 90% of 150,000 is still 135,000 individuals. How thorough do you want each of those “case by case” checks to be?
https://www.bop.gov/mobile/about/population_statistics.jsp
If you want a blanket pardon for everyone with just a possession of marijuana charge that’s cool. But it’s not what the letter is asking for.