About 6,000 inmates will be released for relief in prison crowding. Many of these inmates are foreign citizens who will be deported once released. All are convicted of drug related crimes, another means for this release is to lessen the punishments for nonviolent criminals. These inmates are the first of many to be released. Obama's administration says he wishes to take car of a "lack of fairness". In 2013, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder got rid of mandatory minimal sentences for drug related inmates. Some fear that this large release could lead to an increase in U.S. crime, some officials fear it could also lead to rise in homicides.
As stated in the article the majority of inmates being held for drug related crimes are foreign citizens. Currently in U.S. history there has been an upheaval of debate on border control between Mexico and the U.S. This relates directly to that topic because of the fact that once these ex-convicts are released they will be deported. The question is: will they return to the life they lived before and continue smuggling drugs? Is this release allowing them to return to their opportunity? It was never stated in the article, but could the inmates possibly be monitored when they return home, whether in the U.S. or outside of it. I do hope the government thought a while before following through with this plan. It may lead to consequences later on like officials say, and then they would be right back where they started, in jail.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34460443
Carlos Joglar
ReplyDeleteI believe, at its core, this is a racial issue. Drugs really are everywhere in the U.S. Growing up in the private school system, I still saw my fair share of drugs. Moving to a public school, that amount has not changed. What has changed, however, was that I noticed more people getting caught. Unfortunately, most of these kids are minorities. It's not that they are less able to sneak around, I believe people actively try to look for something wrong when it comes to minorities. And when this system is perpetuated, it leads to the problematically high incarceration rate the U.S. has adopted. Very sad.
Cameron Eisenberg
ReplyDeleteHow would we be able to make sure the convicts don't do drugs again? Are we monitoring the people?
I don't think the government cares if they do/sell/own drugs again, they'll just get arrested and put back in jail, at least the ones that aren't going to be deported...
DeleteI don't think the government cares if they do/sell/own drugs again, they'll just get arrested and put back in jail, at least the ones that aren't going to be deported...
DeleteI agree with this although whats to say that the immigrants wont come back, or anyone for that matter, to commit the crime again knowing that they'll be released where they can just continue the cycle.
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