Hillary Clinton gives outline of her "extensive agenda" for criminal justice system reforms

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Clinton To Focus On Drugs, Policing And Incarceration In Criminal Justice Proposal


Reuters
By Amanda Becker


Posted: 10/30/2015 08:30 AM EDT | Edited: 3 hours ago



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U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will in the coming days outline what her campaign describes as an "extensive agenda" of criminal justice system reforms, starting with suggested sentencing changes and a racial profiling law.

Clinton will be in Atlanta on Friday to launch "African Americans for Hillary." At the event, she will begin rolling out her criminal justice proposals, which will focus on policing, incarceration and re-entry to society. She will then travel to Charleston, South Carolina, for a dinner hosted by the African American rights group NAACP.

Clinton's proposals will focus on ending what she has called the "era of mass incarceration" that has disproportionately affected communities of color.

In Atlanta, Clinton will call for equal prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine offenders and legislation that bans federal, state and local law enforcement from relying on ethnicity when initiating routine investigations, her campaign said......................

[upaloopa]

1. I would like her to go for the decriminalization of

all illegal drugs. We shouldn't punish people because they screwed up their life and became addicted. Unless they committed some other crime they should be given a rehabilitation program not jail. If you rehabilitate someone they can become self sufficient while incarceration costs us all the while they serve their sentence.
That is mostly a state issue not federal. The federal government should end it's war on drugs.
That is one position where I disagree with Hillary I think.

[Thinkingabout]

2. She is also talking about substance rehab, all of this plays together,

[workinclasszero]

3. I'm for the legalization of MJ

and really decriminalization of possession of everything else.

The "war on drugs" was a republican ploy against mainly PoC and potential democratic voters, not to mention a total failure.

Treatment for drug addiction would be way better that incarceration.

I differ with Hillary on some of this but its not enough to make me switch candidates.

As long as states keep legalizing MJ and the feds don't interfere I'm sure it will be nationwide in ten years or so.

[jomin41]

6. And how many lives are going to be effed up for

pot in those ten years? Not a big deal if it's not your life tho, I guess.

[Cha]

4. Thank you!

[jomin41]

5. It is willful blindness to not see the incredible damage

done to our society and nation by the war on drugs. This is not news. This has been known for 30 years by thinking, caring people. Every problem related to drugs has only gotten worse. Constitution holed. Millions of lives ruined, etc etc. Disgusting.