Obama to become first sitting President to visit federal prison

LEAVE HIM THERE!!!!!!!!!!!

www.cnn.com...

Obama said reforming the criminal justice system was a top priority for his remaining time in office.

why now planing on rounding up millons people perhaps?

Is this a white collar criminal resort or a federal 'pound me in the ass' prison?

You can bet he won't see any thing untoward there.

He might be on a fact finding mission for Eric Holder and Lois Lerner.

a reply to: slayerfan

He is starting a big push to get thousands and thousands of people released from custody that have relatively minor offenses for drug use/dealing. It will be no coincidence that the majority of those that will be released are non-whites. The argument will be that since the non-white incarcerations rates are far higher than for whites, then the justice system is broken and needs to be fixed with more lenient drug laws for all because of cultural differences. They will call that Diversity Justice.

The report said Obama was going to meet the inmates. LOL

Considering we have one the most screwed criminal justice systems around. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world and 22% of people in the world who are in prison are in the US. Those are staggering numbers for a free society. That is has taken this long for a President to even look at the problem is crazy.

a reply to: slayerfan

If only he would stay there,best place for him.

Obama to become first sitting President to visit federal prison

He deserves to be in one so I concur let him stay there.

a reply to: MrSpad

Dunno where those 'figures' are coming from but less than 1% of the US population is in prison.

But again if there is blame to be assigned that goes to politicians, and lawmakers.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,266,800 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails at year-end 2011 – about 0.94% of adults in the U.S. resident population

en.wikipedia.org...

Last time I checked the US population is over 330 million.

a reply to: neo96

Last time I checked the US population is over 330 million.

I think you should read the statistic presented more carefully.
www.politifact.com...

a reply to: Phage

Well that was hilarious.

The justices system doesn't need to be 'overhauled'.

That guy just like OBama need to stop writing so many laws.

Webb can cite any number he wants mostly made up anyway.

Think Webb needs to read the BJS statistics.

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a reply to: neo96

Webb can cite any number he wants mostly made up anyway.

I guess you didn't read the article. The author doesn't particularly like Webb so he did some fact checking.

Think Webb needs to read the BJS statistics.

I guess you still don't understand the statistic being talked about. 22% of the prisoners in the world are in the U.S.

a reply to: neo96

Here is a third chance to get it.

Considering we have one the most screwed criminal justice systems around. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world and 22% of people in the world who are in prison are in the US.

a reply to: Phage

I guess someone didn't read this:

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

a reply to: neo96
You guess wrong.
That 2 million + prisoners in the US is 22% of the prisoners on the planet.

While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners.[1]

en.wikipedia.org...

www.prisonstudies.org...

Now do you understand?

originally posted by: YouPeople
a reply to: neo96

Here is a third chance to get it.

Considering we have one the most screwed criminal justice systems around. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world and 22% of people in the world who are in prison are in the US.

shows how lawless the rest of the world is.

a reply to: neo96

The BJS stats only cover state and federal prisoners, and don't include local. So if the state and federal prisoners number between 1.5 and 2 million and local prisoners number around 700,000, neither Webb nor the article Phage provided are too far off.

Or is this a case of "nope still wrong, it's not exactly right" or something?

a reply to: Phage

You guess wrong.

Not hardly for the last time the BJS was cited.

That is not a guess.

a reply to: neo96

That is not a guess.

Your guess was this:

I guess someone didn't read this:

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

Your guess was wrong. I read it.