On April 27, 2023, the United States Sentencing Commission submitted to Congress amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines that would recommend lower sentences for certain defendants. If these changes are applied retroactively, some 18,775 people in federal prison could become eligible for a sentencing reduction—including 3,288 individuals who could be eligible for immediate release. Mary Price of Families Against Mandatory Minimums joins Rattling the Bars to discuss the proposed amendments and what they could mean for thousands of prisoners and their families.
Mary Price is General Counsel of FAMM. She directs the FAMM Litigation Project and advocates for reform of federal sentencing and corrections law and policy before Congress, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of Justice.
Public comments can be made through FAMM’s website: https://famm.org/ussccomments/?emci=97ce1ed3-c0f8-ed11-907c-00224832eb73&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=27925926
The deadline for submitting public comments is June 23, 2023.
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My boyfriend who is 62 yrs is serving a mm sentence in az. He was only a passenger in a vehicle. This sentence has drastically changed his elderly father's life and health. He retired from a job he worked for 31 yrs and never been in trouble a day in his life…his dad will probably die without him.
I wish I knew!!! Before the deadline 🤦ðŸ¾â€â™€ï¸
the criminal justice "systems" NEEDS "INVESTIGATING""INVESTIGATION""INVESTIGATING"…..JAIL for what lead to "WRONG" doing…..ijs
Please read James Hart Stern's book the I'm to be apart of this project 😎😎 your old slavemasters is the police state today. Caucasian Warmongers want to control the world by bully other countries . Weaponizing every sector, illegal Constitution, prison complex, IRS, media companies, military industrial complex, must be disbanded. We need a new Constitution. Not debt and oppression system, Kangaroo courts , selling our data information to the highest bidder. Do you have the address to where your information is being stored? the cloud 🌨ï¸ðŸŒ¨ï¸ Racism is cancer it kills life.
Really think about how many jobs would be affected if there was less or no crime. Unfortunately we can talk till we are blue in the face but if your broke or uneducated and obviously race is and was always a target…..your screwed. It makes me angry.
The problem with these amendments is that they keep adding criteria’s and holes besides if you have a hanging judge who by his instincts acts like the AUSA assistant and he would have “ Discretion†that right there is the fine printing that continues to hurt criminal justice reform!
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Thank you, Mansa Musa, for having Nancy Price on this important discussion. â¤
These laws help all of us to understand better what is happening in our prison system and Congress has done in the past and what it holds for the future. Racial justice for all.
Thank you, again Ms. Price.
This is all political to destabilize society ,and turn it into a third world country ,just like this trans movement and indoctrination of children in school. To weaken the country and control the peasants with death camps. Hooray says china.
What is most fucked up is over half the people locked up have NO victim for the crimes that they were convicted of? How do we justify the amount of law enforcement money spent? arrests! How are the arrests justified? Convictions! Now factor in to this equation the fact that ALL agencies involved in this process are immune from prosecution. Investigate themselves and answer to NOBODY. Now Google the 13th Amendment and read what it says. Stop lying to ourselves
We have successfully standardized incarceration. Thanks for monetizing the criminal justice system
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Good!
Release them. At their advanced age, they won't really be a threat to anyone. As a bonus, taxpayers won't have to foot the bill for continued detainment and medical care. Prisons should not become de-facto retirement homes. I firmly believe starting at age 67 (current official retirement age) prisoners should be released when they are least able to do anymore harm. This would greatly unburden the system and taxpayers.
The savings alone would greatly assist in helping the prison industrial complex go green and archive net-zero status.
Good "call to action" near the end. Thank you!
Well, those unemployment numbers about to rise.
Just an excuse to loot the treasury.
True story. On the same day, a judge sentenced two people. One sold $250 worth of weed twice. The second person beat the F out of an elderly woman. The judge was mandated to give the pot dealer a longer sentence. The judge was livid. He saw the injustice, but the state gave him orders. I read it in a jailhouse newspaper.
Not enough people released. Time 10 and I'll be satisfied. Especially no violent and drug possession.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 It seems to me we tend to arrest people and we forget where they went. Find them they are still with us. They don't disappear. There are many organizations out there that will help, use them.😊
increased time incarcerated due to past record is sentencing twice for the same crime, and so goes way beyond even the constitutional ban on double jeopardy, which means just being put in jeopardy- danger- of being punished twice for the same crime.
it also a total denial of due process– no arrest, no charges, no trial, no conviction for the extra time you're incarcerated for.