In 2011, the Chinese government imprisoned artist and outspoken critic of the communist regime, Ai Weiwei, during a government crackdown that targeted dozens of bloggers, human rights lawyers, and writers. government never reaches a point where it actually locks up those that oppose its policy-like in China. Amusingly, Trump supports criminal-justice reform while his supporters continue to chant “lock her up” at rallies in regards to political opponents like Hillary Clinton, and recently, Dianne Feinstein. While the bill only modestly tweaks the federal criminal justice system (not the state and local systems that largely account for America's prison problem), it's definitely a step in the right direction. This bill, which the Senate passed on Tuesday night, will soften some federally mandatory minimum sentences, provide funding for rehabilitation and re-entry programs.
It’s become so catastrophic that even President Trump supports reform he’s publically backed the First Step Act.
there are almost 2.3 million people behind bars-more than any other country in the world throughout history.Ĭlearly, mass incarceration in the U.S. According to CNN, if the American prison population were its own city, it would be the fifth largest city in America, with a population larger than Phoenix or Philadelphia.
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