HB 1365: Criminal Justice Reform and Sentence Reduction Act of 2019 (Passed) (user search)
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Mr. Reactionary
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« on: January 16, 2019, 04:34:14 PM »

I definitely support the merits of Section 2 but I think the time frame is unreasonable given the scale of the project.

Background:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304319804576389601079728920

https://mobile.twitter.com/CrimeADay

Additionally, I think Section 3 is more or less already law.

Under DOJ, there is Community Relations Services (community outreach and policing), Office of Justice Programs/Bureau of Justice Assistance (community policing and recidivism reduction), Office of Juvenile Justice and delinquency prevention (recidivism reduction), Parole Commission (Parole and reentry), National Institute of Justice (recidivism reduction).

The Courts themselves run Probation and Pretrial services (probation and prisoner reentry).

Basically the only unspoken for bullet point is "bail" which could itself be reformed by Congress without a new bureaucracy. In fact, a good compromise might be to consolidate the above duplicative/fragmented agencies into one single agency called the Community Division which would likely save budget money through greater efficiencies.

And in Section 7, the federal government lacks the power to require States/regions to create bureaucracies as per Printz v. US. Considering Lincoln is the only Region with a traditional cash bail system anyway, I'd say lobbying would be more effective in convincing Lincoln than an unconstitutional mandate.

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Mr. Reactionary
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« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2019, 05:16:15 PM »

Im gonna post thjs here too ...
https://uselectionatlas.org/AFEWIKI/index.php/REFORMING_CRIMINAL_LAW_ACT

We have done 9-1 already and some of the sentencing reforms.

Overall, this is a good bill.
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Mr. Reactionary
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« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2019, 05:20:17 PM »

I definitely support the merits of Section 2 but I think the time frame is unreasonable given the scale of the project.

What timeframe would you suggest? I understand that this will likely be a vast undertaking and I'm not opposed to changing the current timeframe.

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Duly noted. I'll let other representatives give their input before making a decision here, but perhaps Section 3 should be deleted.

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I intended this program to exist at the Federal level at the onset. I'll introduce an amendment to make this program voluntary, and clarify that the program is intended for implementation in Federal cases.

Im not sure on a timeframe. The WSJ Article said 1 lawyer working full time for 2 years couldn't even finish it. Crime a Day has been posting 1 federal crime each day for 4 years or so and estimates to only have done like 1% of federal crimes. Its possible to meet a quicker timeframe if Congress requires multiple lawyers to work on it full time but I think any timeframe is more or less aspirational.
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