OPINION: 'The human toll of those failures is immense. Elderly people are growing frail in federal prisons, when they should be safely living out their final years at home with their loved ones,' writes NazgolG and Bill Underwood.
The human toll of those failures is immense. Elderly people are growing frail in federal prisons, when they should be safely living out their final years at home with their loved ones. Children are growing up without parents who could have safely come home years ago. Scarce public tax dollars are being spent on prisons, instead of the interventions that actually make communities safer and save lives.Meanwhile, extreme sentences areto protecting public safety.
Law enforcement, doctors, and criminologists agree: there’s no justification for punishing people convicted of crack offenses more harshly than people convicted of powder offenses. The bill already passed overwhelmingly in the House last session. While Attorney General Merrick Garland recently enacted a
The First Step Act also currently includes a significant flaw. It arbitrarily excludes the oldest people in federal prisons—those convicted prior to November 1, 1987—from applying to courts for compassionate release. Thewould make them eligible, while also allowing elderly people who have served the majority of their sentence, and who the Bureau of Prisons deems low risk, to return to their families via the elderly home detention pilot program.
The path to bipartisan criminal justice reform isn’t easy, but it’s essential for justice and fairness. A Republican Congress during a Republican administration passed the First Step Act. This Congress has the capacity to pass meaningful reform, too.
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