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US Sentencing Commission releases its latest updated "First Step Act of 2018 Resentencing Provisions Retroactivity Data Report" I just noticed that the US Sentencing Commission today released this updated new version of its data report titled "First Step Act of 2018 Resentencing Provisions Retroactivity Data Report." The introduction to the report provides this context and overview: On December 21, 2018, the President signed into law the First Step Act of 2018.  Section 404 of that act provide...

Dec 14, 2020 12:42 PM EDT President-elect Joe Biden will face pressure when he takes office to make swift changes to the Department of Justice. But while he’ll be able to implement some reforms on his own, expected pushback from Congress and legal fights could make it hard for Biden to deliver many of the sweeping criminal justice reforms that advocates say are necessary. Coming off a presidential campaign revived by the support of Black voters in a year marke...

People have not seen, he commits to the people, we see unemployment rate, the lowest it has ever been, the first step act, thousands of individuals, 90% being black, this is a president who legitimately forced to be reckoned with and democrats know they have no choice in their opinion but to impeach other -- carley: democrats trying to hurt donald trumps election chances but some people say it could help him in the long run. how do you feel about that? >> we are seeing people in the independence...

Obviously what donald trump said is absurd, disgusting, but very much in line with who he is and what he does. i think we should say, and i think supporters of the first steps act who have worked on criminal justice with donald trump, think hes actually done some good things on criminal justice. that doesnt excuse any of the things he says or the way he often talks about people of color. doesnt excuse it at all, and it doesnt justify the way he talks about it. but it is good that he has been inv...

"after life: my journey from incarceration to freedom." alice marie johnson joins us. first of all, tell me briefly, how has it been since you gotten out in terms of what youve tried to do with your has been. of course, i have win a book called "after life," but i think one of the most important things i have been doing is i have been fighting for others who have been left behind. i have been using my voice, my face, my story to magnify the lead for the need for criminal justice reform, not only...

People havent had enough, that doesnt make me afraid of donald trump, it makes me afraid of people who i share spaces with in restaurants, people who i share work spaces with. the fact that there is a quinnipiac poll that says that 45% of white americans approve of this president even right now based on results that came out today is troubling to me. im wondering what will it take for people to stand up to righteousness. this is not a sidebar issue. this is not a distracting issue for someone wh...

Unemployment, we talk about the first step act, reauthorization of the second chance act. opportunity zones, pardons. when we talk about all the things his administration has delved into for the african-american community, it something we havent seen before. this is whats in his first term. when you talk about what do you have to lose, the real question is what do you have to gain, and i think pointing to those many items i just mentioned. >> neil: one of the things the presidents comments, go b...

May qualify, lets be clear here, we know how we got to this point and it was the disaster, 94 crime bill pushed by democrats, clinton, democrat party in general, mass incarceration of african-americans. this act which i actually lobbied on last year, to see it come to the into, is something thats restoring justice to the millions of folks who lost their family members. there was a great impact here f we look at the numbers in 2014, 2.3 million african-americans were a part of the prison populati...

Quarter of a million people that are elder in prison that all the data shows pose little threat to us and most are there for egregiously long nonviolent drug terms. you have 65-year-old, 75-year-old people who are expensive to keep behind bars and pose little threat and put in prison under draconian times and even those of us voted for the first step act, which i helped right. they are not made retroactive. i just believe we should have judges start to take a second look at many of these people ...

An application for those who served 10 years. >> the idea is really the evidence and the data. we in america have about a quarter of a million people that are elder in prison that all the data shows pose little threat to us and most are there for egregiously long nonviolent drug terms. you have 65-year-old, 75-year-old people who are expensive to keep behind bars and pose little threat and put in prison under draconian times and even those of us voted for the first step act, which i helped right...