Congress’s Criminal Justice Reform Act boosts privatization, fails to dismantle mass incarceration, nor does it implement sentencing reform. We speak to Eddie Conway and Natasha Pratt Harris about the proposed reform

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32 thoughts on “Trump’s Criminal Justice Reform Act Is a Meaningless Smoke Screen (Pt 1/3)”
  1. MAN STOP TRYING TO MAKE THIS SOMETHING NEGATIVE THIS IS NOT REGAN NIXON BUSH OR OBAMA REFORM YOU LIBERALS ARE SO NEGATIVES SEE WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN FIRST THEN SPEAK ON IT

  2. If Obama had done this he would have been treated as GOD…Ingrate race pimps, so pathetic and sad that their hate for Trump overrides their love for their own people

  3. Low-risk inmates aren't the problem! Violent offenders do get out, they are always the forgotten group. Sometimes these guys suffer from real mental disorders and need medical help by professionals (a CO with a high school diploma doesn't count). Sometimes they are just bad people.

    If someone commits a violent crime they are thrown in with violent criminals and its dog eat dog. Put anyone in that situation for 10+ years and they will come out angry, jacked up, and stand a strong chance of abusing society again.

  4. So what do you all suggest? He has it on the table. He opened up the White House to dialog. So what do you all suggest that he does.

  5. This is a step in the right direction. Stop the negativity. What the hell are you doing to make the prison system better. How ignorant can you be?

  6. As someone facing federal time who is none violent offender this gives me hope to come home faster to my family.

    I love it when people who are not facing time in the federal system are shrugging this bill off. give me a break.

    If trump name is on this it’s horrible. This is totally ridiculous it’s called the first step act nothing has been passed in the federal system in years.

    A criminal justice major hasn’t heard of the bill wtf???? Really go back to your class room bubble.

    I have been in federal prison some 20 years ago the sentence time are ridiculous anything to reduce this or have home confinement is a step in the right direction.

    Totally ridicules!!! here’s an idea stop having teachers who are well off and a well off girl in college who is supposedly taking criminal justice classes who hasn’t heard of this bill that has been all over the news for months as for the guy really Malcom X.

    These are the exact people I don’t want representing me as they are so all or nothing that nothing gets done.

    Is this bill perfect no not at all is trump an ass for somethings he does yes but I guarantee if you put out feelers to people on pre trial for the feds you would have a totally different view on your panel as this is a hot topic on YouTube for those awaiting sentence and it’s been nothing but hope that it passes to lead the way for more reform in the future.

    Step out of you college bubble and talk to people living this right now. The panel mad me sick.

  7. I’m sorry but this is so painful to watch and I’m 100% for criminal justice reform.. the young woman knows nothing of the bill and the female professor is stumbling and lacks cohesive statements… also ten percent of 2 million is not 60,000 inmates. Trump nor does any other president have to sign bills such as these instead of being angry let’s celebrate the fact this bill was passed and go from there, if they really cared they’d be working with local and state officials to pass legislature in their own state to make sure state and county inmates are included in such bills not just federal ones. This is utter garbage. This is counterintuitive to criminal justice reform.

  8. The justice system and the courts are never going to just "work" in our favor. Or just be on our side. if we choose to continue to lean on this IDEAL, than we are just disappointing our selves. However, small changes here & there to improve it, just might be what is needed for SOME success to come out of it.

  9. Trumps not doing this because he cares about people. It's obvious he's doing this because if he ends up in jail, he can say, "Hey, I tried to help you guys." Remember, Trump is a racist and hates criminal, he sees himself as an elitist who is above everyone else, an untouchable.

  10. This is horrible? What other presidents pushed any type of prison reform? I think it’s a step in the right direction if anything

  11. well we did need that. im not saying trump is good, but i dont knock someone who does something good. we do need to address the problem with criminals getting let out with no way to live a normal life and not go back to crime, ive been there. even if this isnt prefect its a good start.

  12. Lenin: "Every day, in one context or another, you will be returning to the question: what is the bureaucratic-military State, what is its nature and what class interests does it serve?  . . This question has been so confused and complicated because it affects the interests of the ruling classes more than any other question (yielding place in this respect only to the foundations of economic science). The doctrine of the state serves to justify social privilege, the existence of exploitation, the existence of capitalism—and that is why it would be the greatest mistake to expect impartiality on this question, to approach it in the belief that people who claim to be scientific can give you a purely scientific view on the subject. In the question of the state, in the doctrine of the state, in the theory of the state, when you have become familiar with it and have gone into it deeply enough, you will always discern the struggle between different classes, a struggle which is reflected or expressed in a conflict of views on the state, in the estimate of the role and significance of the state.   . . ."

    Wilhelm Reich: "What has to be explained is not the fact that the man who is hungry steals or the fact that the man who is exploited strikes, but why the majority of those who are hungry don't steal and why the majority of those who are exploited don't strike."

    Critias: "There was a time when the life of men was unordered, bestial and the slave of force, when there was no reward for the virtuous and no punishment for the wicked. Then, I think, men devised retributory laws, in order that Justice might be dictator and have arrogance as its slave, and if anyone sinned, he was punished. Then, when the laws forbade them to commit open crimes of violence, and they began to do them in secret, a wise and clever man invented fear (of the gods) for mortals, that there might be some means of frightening the wicked, even if they do anything or say or think it in secret. 

    Seneca: Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

    Einstein: For example, most of the major states of history owed their existence to conquest. The conquering peoples established themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent institution and created a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior."

    Lenin: "If we get away from what are known as religious teachings, from the subtleties, philosophical arguments and various opinions advanced by bourgeois scholars, if we get away from these and try to get at the real core of the matter, we shall find that the State really does amount to such an apparatus of rule which stands outside society as a whole. When there appears such a special group of men occupied solely with government, and who in order to rule need a special apparatus of coercion to subjugate the will of others by force—prisons, special contingents of men, armies, etc.—then there appears the state. [See Lenin "The State" and "The State and Revolution"]

  13. We all know this is racism. Hillary Clinton confirmed that "deplorables." What about white collar criminals on Wall Street, corporatiuons? Make them pay, put them in the infantry & send these fat cats to Yemen.

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