![]() ![]() Even a decade into a sustained push to reform the way this country deals with crime, serious conversations about how we handle violence remain almost impossible. Such refusal to think about crimes of violence is, unfortunately, to be expected. Nice to see that Newsom isn’t a total idiot. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania, meanwhile, proposed a furlough policy that excluded, among others, anyone with a current or even prior conviction for a violent crime. “I have no interest — and I want to make this crystal clear — in releasing violent criminals from our system,†Newsom said. The debate over which prisoners to release early and what to do with them rarely considers those charged with or convicted of violent crimes, except to declare that they should stay behind bars. Gavin Newsom said that his state’s efforts “will be for those nonviolent offenses, and we will do it in a very systematic way.†“There are some at-risk inmates who are non-violent and pose minimal likelihood of recidivism and who might be safer serving their sentences in home confinement,†Attorney General William Barr wrote tepidly late last month in a memorandum to the Bureau of Prisons director. The focus, however, has been on low-level offenders. Federal and state authorities, as a result, have begun to release thousands of inmates. ![]() The pandemic poses an outsize threat to the nation’s jails and prisons, where confined populations can’t take the recommended precautions and often lack access to such basics as soap and hand sanitizer — sometimes even running water. They also struck the names of two men charged in an armed robbery during which a police detective was killed by friendly fire. When a woman accused of trying to kill someone with a poisoned cheesecake appeared on a list of Rikers Island prisoners to be freed because of coronavirus risks, New York’s district attorneys banded together to strike her name. While at the same time wanting to grab gunsįreeing inmates won’t thwart the virus if we exclude those locked up for violence But now they want violent criminals let go. They wanted to release prisoners because of bat soup virus, failing to realize that maybe the prisons should just be isolated. ![]()
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