prison reform

Pennsylvania’s radical Lt. Gov. John Fetterman believes law-abiding Pennsylvanians would be no “less safe” with one-third of the state’s prison population prowling the streets.

One day before the election, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson penned an op-ed praising President Donald Trump for his work with the African-American community, urging Americans to “reelect my friend.”

Civil rights leader and Christian activist Rev. William Owens endorsed Donald Trump for president Tuesday, in his personal capacity as a private citizen.

Government officials should start releasing prisoners from jails to protect them from China’s coronavirus, says an activist for the tech industry’s FWD.us lobbying group. 

UK prisons play host to unofficial Sharia style courts, handing out gruesome punishments, according to claims.

A student activist group at Brown University is calling for the abolition of all American prisons.

A notorious leader of the “Almighty Latin Kings” gang, now accused of murder, instantly returned to a life of drugs and violence after being released from federal prison by the “First Step Act.”

A notorious leader of the “Almighty Latin Kings” gang is now on the run after allegedly stabbing a man to death in Rhode Island, just nine months after being released from federal prison thanks to the “First Step Act.”

Ben & Jerry’s has gone political with its ice cream again by launching its latest flavor, “Justice ReMix’d,” to advocate for prison reform.

Shawshank Redemption director Tim Robbins spoke about his campaign for prison reform at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, arguing that new measures will help foster both a “safer and more humane society.”

Washington, D.C.’s council is reviewing a plan to free early from prison hundreds of violent convicted criminals, including murderers and rapists, so long as they committed the crimes when they were young.

The Republican and Democrat-supported criminal justice reform legislation, known as the “First Step Act,” has already allowed hundreds of violent convicted criminals to be released from federal prison, federal records reveal. 

If the left has its way in the next few years, there won’t be anyone left in prison because, you see, they’re overflowing with innocent black men locked up for “nonviolent drug crimes.” All of them!

Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged to cut the U.S. incarceration rate by more than 50 percent if elected president in 2020.

President Donald Trump teamed up with reality star Kim Kardashian on Thursday to promote employment for former prison inmates.

This past Monday an event took place at the White House that many Americans might think would be an April Fool’s joke if it had been initiated by any typical Republican politician.

“The law rolls back provisions of the 1994 Clinton crime law that was so devastating to some many and that disproportionately impacted the African American community,” Trump said in a celebration speech at the White House. “Nobody believes how much, and now they understand it.”

The White House event is scheduled for Monday evening at 5:30 pm EST.

President Donald Trump will host and deliver remarks at a Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act celebration on Monday at the White House.

An educational charity has cancelled a conference on prison reform at Britain’s Open University in Milton Keynes following threats by transgender activists over what they claim is the group’s “transphobic” policy.

Activist and CNN host Van Jones credited reality TV star Kim Kardashian on Friday for helping move the president on the issue of criminal justice reform.

The passage of the First Step Act, the prison reform bill backed by President Donald Trump, in the Senate on Tuesday “proved we can come together as a country,” a senior White House official told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

CNN commentator and left-wing activist Van Jones celebrated the passing of the Senate’s version of the justice reform bill this week adding that it is all thanks to Kim Kardashian.

CNN commentator Van Jones says the passage of a criminal justice reform bill set to reduce the federal prison population by more than 50,000 inmates in a decade is a “Christmas miracle.”

Tuesday on the “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) commented on the prison reform bill’s status, doubting there is sufficient time left in the session to get it passed. Cotton said there are “ongoing changes, seemingly by the hour from

“Go for it Mitch!” Trump wrote on Twitter, describing the First Step Act bill as “extremely popular” and endorsed by both Republicans and Democrats.

The Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, the media conglomerate which includes Fox News, has endorsed wide-sweeping prison reform legislation.

Increasing border enforcement is the second biggest priority for all American voters, just after boosting the economy, a new poll reveals. 

Rap star Meek Mill said 19th century-era slave plantations and prisons in modern America are “no different” in a video published by the New York Times Monday.

Charlie Kirk told Breitbart News that policies included within the First Step Act have been “proven to work” in Texas.

The First Step Act could be the beginning of a joint effort to address challenges that have ready solutions but that, because of their political difficulty, need bipartisan support to pass.

In the 2016 presidential election, “Law and order” became a hallmark of President Trump’s campaign, wherein he would routinely blast weak-on-crime politicians.

A prison reform plan supported by both political establishments, the billionaire Koch brothers, the ACLU, and President Trump will make it more difficult to deport criminal foreigners in United States prisons, experts say. 

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that he will support the First Step Act, a bipartisan effort at prison reform that is backed by leaders in the black community as well as prominent law enforcement groups.

The vast majority of Americans oppose reducing penalties and sentences for drug traffickers who have helped fuel the country’s opioid crisis that has now killed than the Vietnam War. 

The GOP megadonor billionaire Koch brothers are set to seal another policy victory with President Trump’s announcement that he will sign a prison reform bill that is opposed by his base of supporters, conservatives, and law enforcement officials.