We, the comrades of Unit 1012: The VFFDP, whose group
consists of murder victims’ families are totally against them. They only
support the rights of criminals over victims and their families. We know that their
plan is to make America a land fit for criminals.
We know that Soros (modern day Karl Marx) is one of their
funders. See this:
November 7, 2014
State-based
Campaigns to Significantly Reduce Prison Population Will Focus on Presidential
Battleground States
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: media@aclu.org
NEW YORK – The Open Society
Foundations today awarded a grant of $50 million to the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) in support of its nationwide campaign to end mass
incarceration. The campaign seeks to reform criminal justice policies that have
increased incarceration rates dramatically during a period of declining
crime –and exacerbated racial disparities. The nation's adult jail and
prison population numbers over 2.2 million with one in 100 adults behind bars,
the highest incarceration rate in the world. The ACLU intends to cut that
number in half by 2020, with the most ambitious effort to end mass
incarceration in American history.
"Reducing our nation's
prison population by 50 percent may sound like a lofty goal. But Americans are
recognizing that we can't arrest our way out of every social problem and, in
fact, the overuse of our criminal justice system has been making matters
worse," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. "Elected
officials on both sides of the aisle now see clearly the disastrous results of
the 'tough on crime' politics of the 80s and 90s. The ACLU is partnering with
allies across the entire political spectrum to take a new approach and get the
work done."
"There are few organizations
in the United States in such close alignment with our values and criminal
justice reform goals as the ACLU," said Christopher Stone, President
of the Open Society Foundations. "We are confident that our support of the
already advanced state-level ACLU operations can truly transform thinking about
public safety, move progressive and innovative legislation forward, and restore
the trust of communities hit hardest by the overuse and abuse of our criminal
justice system."
While the ACLU's most impactful
work has typically been through litigation, this campaign signals a sea change
for an organization with more than one million members and supporters, staffed
state-based affiliates, and formidable legal muscle. It will build on the
momentum created by state and national advocates, and on the analysis of the
National Academy of Sciences, which found that in order to significantly lower
prison rates, drug enforcement and sentencing laws should be revised. And,
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has strongly endorsed reduced sentences for
certain non-violent drug offenses, which would cut average sentences for
federal drug offenses by 11 months.
In accepting the grant from OSF,
Romero outlined immediate next steps the ACLU will take:
- Bring transparency to the current crisis by assembling and disclosing state and local data around who is behind bars, for how long, and for what offenses
- Select 3 to 5 key states for 2016 action – those with the largest prison populations, most egregious sentencing, and a history of playing a consequential role in the election of the next president
- Build state capacity in early primary and battleground states such as Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Colorado.
The announcement of increased
funding for mass incarceration reform comes just days after a ballot measure –
Proposition 47 – passed by an overwhelming 58% majority in California. The
measure, which the ACLU aided with a $3.5 million investment, lowers personal
drug use and small-scale property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors, and
distributes the criminal justice savings to substance abuse and mental health
treatment, anti-truancy programs, and victims' services. Approximately 15,000
to 20,000 people will likely be eligible for re-sentencing and release from
either state prison or county jail.
Former speaker of the House of
Representatives Newt Gingrich, Senator Rand Paul, and California businessman B.
Wayne Hughes, Jr. also supported Prop. 47. The ACLU intends to tap into this
type of bipartisan support with its broader campaign against mass
incarceration, using this donation as a primer for increased political action
on both the state and national level.
Romero also announced that Alison
Holcomb, architect of the ACLU of Washington's marijuana legislation, who
directed the statewide campaign to pass it, will serve as the national director
of the ACLU Campaign to End Mass Incarceration. Holcomb was also involved in
the state legislature's passage of a 911 Good Samaritan drug overdose
prevention bill and the launch of Seattle and King County's innovative
pre-booking diversion program, Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD).
"We've had 40 years of
widening the criminal justice net too far and have relied too heavily on
punishment to address social and health problems," Holcomb said.
"We've drained coffers and cut people off from jobs, housing, and family
stability – the very things they need to succeed in society."
Romero concludes: "This
exceptionally generous grant from the Open Society Foundations allows us and
our partners to break the cycle that has destroyed families and devastated
communities, by righting this source of injustice and ending mass
incarceration."
For more information on ACLU's
Campaign to End Mass Incarceration, go to:
https://www.aclu.org/smart-justice-fair-justice
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