Mr. Brown is backing an initiative that would make more nonviolent criminals eligible for parole.
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Do you think it will reduce drug violence, or keep more nonviolent people out of prison?
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Do you think it will reduce drug violence or keep more nonviolent people out of prison?
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In San Antonio, Joe Gonzales, also a Democrat, has pledged to rehabilitate more nonviolent offenders, rather than locking them up.
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And that means more nonviolent drug offenders will end up behind bars for long periods of time — particularly for fentanyl.
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As the Sentencing Commission's report makes clear, those policies will lead only to more nonviolent, non-white young people in federal prison for longer stretches.
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And in his final week in office, Mr. Obama is likely to grant commutations to shorten the prison sentences of still more nonviolent drug offenders, officials said.
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And what ethical burden does this place on the artist as we seek to break out from the logic of violence and look towards more nonviolent futures?
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The idea is to keep more nonviolent offenders, many of whom are homeless, drug addicted or mentally ill, out of jail and steer them into treatment programs where they will be less likely to re-offend.
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The group called for the release of thousands more nonviolent offenders in low-risk categories, including elderly inmates, who are the least likely of all to commit new crimes, and those with convictions for drugs other than crack.
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Justice Powell also noted that 3/4 of the state legislatures had never instituted a three strikes law imposing a mandatory life sentence for two or more nonviolent offenses, and of the 12 states that had, only three (Texas, West Virginia, and Washington) still retained the law. Specifically, Justice Powell noted that the states of Kansas and Kentucky changed their laws to a more flexible sentencing scheme. Justice Powell also noted that the federal habitual offender law also did not impose a mandatory life sentence.
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A critical editorial was published by the Chicago Sun-Times on the eve of Reboletti's law coming into effect. It commented – "Legislators must have been on something to zero in on this obscure organic substance ... The last time we checked, Illinois was not besieged by a salvia epidemic. We don't see the urgency in criminalizing a substance with no clear track record of causing people to act in a dangerous manner or hurt other people ... considering how overcrowded our prisons are with dangerous criminals, trolling around for more nonviolent drug offenders to punish is counterintuitive... Regulating use of, rather than banning salvia, would have been a more sober approach." Alcohol-related financial contributions featured highly for Representative Dennis Reboletti's 2006 political campaign.
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It commented - > Legislators must have been on something to zero in on this obscure organic > substance ... The last time we checked, Illinois was not besieged by a > salvia epidemic. We don't see the urgency in criminalizing a substance with > no clear track record of causing people to act in a dangerous manner or hurt > other people ... considering how overcrowded our prisons are with dangerous > criminals, trolling around for more nonviolent drug offenders to punish is > counterintuitive... Regulating use of, rather than banning salvia, would > have been a more sober approach. Opponents of extremely prohibitive Salvia restrictions argue that such reactions are largely due to an inherent prejudice and a particular cultural bias rather than any actual balance of evidence, pointing out inconsistencies in attitudes toward other more toxic and addictive drugs such as alcohol and nicotine.[i]Nutt et al. 2007.
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