Misha Verbitsky - January 6th, 2018
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How Jeff Sessions wants to bring back the war on drugs Трамп, как и ожидалось, ре-криминализовал марихуану, отменив указ Обамы, запрещавший федералам преследовать производство и продажу легких наркотиков в тех штатах, где это легализовано. Вот довольно занятные вещи про Стивена Кука, очередного сумасшедшего из трамповской администрации, который продавил криминализацию. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/meet-jeff-sessions-right-hand-drug-warrior-w480397 http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/04/10/steven-cook-justice-system-prison-reform/76949/ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/meet-jeff-sessions-right-hand-drug-warrior-w480397 https://www.thetrace.org/2017/03/jeff-sessions-doj-deputy-violent-crime-crackdown/ https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/politico50/steven-h-cook/ In January 1990, Ira Johnson stood in a federal courtroom and pleaded with the judge to show her son mercy. Darrell Frazier, 29, had just been sentenced to life in prison without parole. He wouldn't have the right to appear before a parole board ? not at age 60, 70 or 80 ? no matter what he did to make up for his crimes.
Frazier had not been charged with murder or another violent crime ? the sort of thing that one might associate with a life-without-parole sentence ? but rather with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
At the time, the federal prosecutor in the case, Steven H. Cook, argued that Frazier deserved to spend the rest of his life in prison because he had prior drug convictions. Frazier got life. Now almost 60 years old, he's locked up in a maximum-security prison in Kentucky, one of countless aging lifers who committed their crimes when they were young and who happen to live in America, the nation with the highest incarceration rate in the world.
A number of lawmakers, prosecutors, cops and judges regret their role in fueling mass incarceration, or at least admit that the U.S. could stand to imprison fewer people. Even former NYPD police chief William Bratton and former Cook County, Illinois, State's Attorney Anita Alvarez ? neither of whom could be accused of being soft on crime ? joined a group of law enforcement officials who say they want to reduce the country's prison population.
Steve Cook is not one of them. And in a move that signals he's truly committed to rolling back the bipartisan momentum on criminal justice reform, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has tapped Cook to address violent crime in cities ? widely seen as a directive to reverse the slim criminal justice reforms that took place during the Obama administration.
"Cook thinks that prison is a reliable answer for almost everything," Kevin Ring, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, tells Rolling Stone. "When it doesn't work, the answer is more prison."
В Америке это довольно важная проблема, ибо в тюрьмах (штатных и федеральных) сидит полтора миллиона человек, из них 300 тысяч за наркотики; администрация Трампа заявляет, что сажать нужно больше, и массовые посадки -- универсальное решение всех проблем с преступностью. Make America Great Again!
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