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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Don’t be fooled. Arrest means nothing.
Appropriate jail time means something.
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Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) once had the answer, back when he was the mayor of Richmond.  He pioneered Project Exile, the key feature being:

- federal incarceration at a prison at least 50 miles from the convict’s residence.

The 50+ miles is crucial.  Recidivism under Senator Kaine’s program dropped to single digits.  And lowering recidivism is the key to breaking the crime cycle we are stuck in.

The 50+ Mike provision was so effective because our current model jails convicts close to home, where they know some or many of their fellow inmates, and their family/girlfriends are very close by.

This 50+ mile factor may not seem significant to you.  But you do not live in the same world as these convicts.  Do not delude yourself; they seriously live in a mindset you cannot comprehend.

Sadly, Senator Kaine was attacked - from within his own party - over Project Exile with the false but all too common accusation it was “racist.”

Tim Kaine needs to revisit his earlier success and champion the program nation wide as a way to rescue our crime-plagued cities.  The current “no incarceration” program is clearly not working, and innocent people are dying.[/quote]

I've heard that DC tried this, in order to break up the gangs and families of criminals.  It was successful but likened to other programs designed to break up families such as the residential schools for Indian children and was cancelled.

Breaking the cycle of generational poverty and generational crime is akin to cultural genocide.  [/quote]

Other than the DC jail, DC has no local prisons. After Lorton was closed, prisoners have been sent all over the country. [/quote]

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