Senator Webb:
“The National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 that I introduced in the Senate on March 26, 2009 will create a blue-ribbon commission to look at every aspect of our criminal justice system with an eye toward reshaping the process from top to bottom. I believe that it is time to bring together the best minds in America to confer, report, and make concrete recommendations about how we can reform the process.”
Why We Urgently Need this Legislation:
• With 5% of the world's population, our country now houses 25% of the world's reported prisoners.
• Incarcerated drug offenders have soared 1200% since 1980.
• Four times as many mentally ill people are in prisons than in mental health hospitals.
• Approximately 1 million gang members reside in the U.S., many of them foreign-based; and Mexican cartels operate in 230+ communities across the country.
• Post-incarceration re-entry programs are haphazard and often nonexistent, undermining public safety and making it extremely difficult for ex-offenders to become full, contributing members of society.
“America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace. Its irregularities and inequities cut against the notion that we are a society founded on fundamental fairness. Our failure to address this problem has caused the nation's prisons to burst their seams with massive overcrowding, even as our neighborhoods have become more dangerous. We are wasting billions of dollars and diminishing millions of lives.
We need to fix the system. Doing so will require a major nationwide recalculation of who goes to prison and for how long and of how we address the long-term consequences of incarceration. “
Senator Jim Webb (D) Virginia has introduced this needed legislation. If you believe his is correct then shows your support by emailing or calling your representatives in Congress and asks them to cosponsor this legislation or at least vote for it.
Congressman Ralph Hall 4th Congressional District. DC Office: 202-225-6673
Sen. Hutchison's Washington D.C. Office: 202-224-5922
Sen. Cornyn's Washington D.C. Office: 202-224-2934
If not in the 4th Congressional District find your Representative here:
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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3 comments:
A greater understanding of why people commit crime will lead to ways of correcting the offender and preventing new crime.
Any 1st year psychology or business fundimentals book will tell you task and reward is the only effective way ever shown to correct bad behaviors. Punishment has never been shown to work and has been seen to subvert and foster anti-social behavior.
A greater understanding of why people commit crime will lead to ways of correcting the offender and preventing new crime.
Any 1st year psychology or business fundimentals book will tell you task and reward is the only effective way ever shown to correct bad behaviors. Punishment has never been shown to work and has been seen to subvert and foster anti-social behavior.
It's about time something is done about our Justice System. It is corrupt and lots of the corruption has been created by the "WAR ON DRUGS". How do the drug offenders get all the drugs they want in prison? Who makes the profit? It's crazy that we have created a society full of felons. How can people be arrested and locked up in prison when the same thing is going on in the prison for profit. We need this WAR ON DRUGS STOPPED! It is ruining our families lives!!!
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