Holder, Looks To Overturn Ruling That Would Apply Fair Sentencing Act Retroactively

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7. You are so wrong.

"Getting them out if [sic] and keeping them out is another story........and the fact is that it's going to take effort."

Are you sure you're on the right discussion site?

Selecting who to "get out" is a really easy task due to the advanced computer systems these days. If the government computers don't make this easy then I assure you the private prison company computers have all the information needed and should be required to be turn it over to the local, state and federal authorities as needed.

"Keeping them out?" Seriously? I'm not talking about letting loose hard-core repeat offenders. I'm talking about letting out those people who made a mistake or two and got caught. Yet our draconian "War on Drugs" laws and mandatory sentencing laws passed in the wake of the "War on Drugs" swept up otherwise innocent people who experimented with drugs, maybe even several times and too often, and were convicted and then sentenced without any regard to their overall situation. All because of mandatory sentencing and three strikes laws. The judges were forbidden from "judging" and taking into account the facts before their court and making "judicial" decisions. All because politicians found it expedient in their campaigns for election and re-election to take a "hard stance" on drugs.

The sad thing I think is that "keeping them out" would have been an easy effort if we hadn't subjected them to mandatory sentencing for drug crimes and thrown them into incarceration where they had to learn survival skills that will not serve them well outside of a prison. Yep, if we had actually tried to treat people as humans who make errors and need some work rather than the Puritan punishment for the most minor of transgressions we might have saved thousands of people.