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Anonymous wrote:Recently, Councilmember Charles Allen introduced the Second Look Amendment Act of 2019 to amend the IRAA to further align with the latest research regarding the emerging adult population. Specifically, if passed, the Second Look Amendment Act will expand the opportunity to request re-sentencing to young adults who committed their offense between the ages of 18-25 and would hold all IRAA candidates awaiting re-sentencing in DC’s Correctional Treatment Facility. While this legislation doesn’t guarantee release, it provides for a meaningful sentence review.

Once again, under this bill no one would be guaranteed a sentence reduction or given one automatically; people would merely get a chance to prove they deserve freedom. Second look sentencing gives people an incentive to reform and improve themselves.

Great, since we’ve agreed that laws incentivize behavior, let’s impose mandatory minimums for all violent crimes and since we agree that brains are not fully formed until at least 25, let’s agree that the mandatory minimum for any violent crime will be commitment/imprisonment until at least age 25 (but may be much, much longer depending on the crime).

Deal?

Anonymous wrote:Recently, Councilmember Charles Allen introduced the Second Look Amendment Act of 2019 to amend the IRAA to further align with the latest research regarding the emerging adult population. Specifically, if passed, the Second Look Amendment Act will expand the opportunity to request re-sentencing to young adults who committed their offense between the ages of 18-25 and would hold all IRAA candidates awaiting re-sentencing in DC’s Correctional Treatment Facility. While this legislation doesn’t guarantee release, it provides for a meaningful sentence review.

Once again, under this bill no one would be guaranteed a sentence reduction or given one automatically; people would merely get a chance to prove they deserve freedom. Second look sentencing gives people an incentive to reform and improve themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh please. Be quiet.

The thread was quiet for 24 hours until you opened your big mouth stupid. Follow your own advice if you want solace.

Solace? I want whoever the PP is to not draw equivalence between drug dealing and being part of national prison reform for 80s crack crimes and directly murdering or violating someone and being pardoned in 15 years because you were 25 at the time. #notthesame

That’s odd. So you don’t care one way or the other about the proposed legislation being discussed, you just want “order in the forum” and want anonymous PP’s to abide by your rules of rationale. Hmmm... You’re right, you don’t want solace. You want control. Maybe you should ask Jeff if he’s got a part-time job available so you can fulfill your fantasies and monitor threads for content.

Now, back to the subject...

Equivalencies debates aside, with the passage of the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act (IRAA) in 2016 and subsequent amendments, DC law provided an opportunity for the re-sentencing of youth who were tried as adults and given long sentences from crimes committed when they were under 18, and had served at least 15 years in prison.
In determining whether to reduce the sentence, the court is to consider many factors, including whether the individual has demonstrated maturity and demonstrated sufficient rehabilitation to safely return to the community.

Recently, Councilmember Charles Allen introduced the Second Look Amendment Act of 2019 to amend the IRAA to further align with the latest research regarding the emerging adult population. Specifically, if passed, the Second Look Amendment Act will expand the opportunity to request re-sentencing to young adults who committed their offense between the ages of 18-25 and would hold all IRAA candidates awaiting re-sentencing in DC’s Correctional Treatment Facility. While this legislation doesn’t guarantee release, it provides for a meaningful sentence review.

Once again, under this bill no one would be guaranteed a sentence reduction or given one automatically; people would merely get a chance to prove they deserve freedom. Second look sentencing gives people an incentive to reform and improve themselves.

I'm sorry, but you are just being really bizarre by drawing an equivalency between Trump's guest (drug charges) and someone who joined in raping a little girl in front of her mom during one of multiple home invasions (the case Allen chastised the judge over). If he hadn't fired off that letter to the judge I would give this a second look, but in so doing he demonstrated he doesn't want a judge to 'decide'--he just wants the judge to agree with him and pretty much release everyone.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please. Be quiet.

The thread was quiet for 24 hours until you opened your big mouth stupid. Follow your own advice if you want solace.

Solace? I want whoever the PP is to not draw equivalence between drug dealing and being part of national prison reform for 80s crack crimes and directly murdering or violating someone and being pardoned in 15 years because you were 25 at the time. #notthesame

That’s odd. So you don’t care one way or the other about the proposed legislation being discussed, you just want “order in the forum” and want anonymous PP’s to abide by your rules of rationale. Hmmm... You’re right, you don’t want solace. You want control. Maybe you should ask Jeff if he’s got a part-time job available so you can fulfill your fantasies and monitor threads for content.

Now, back to the subject...

Equivalencies debates aside, with the passage of the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act (IRAA) in 2016 and subsequent amendments, DC law provided an opportunity for the re-sentencing of youth who were tried as adults and given long sentences from crimes committed when they were under 18, and had served at least 15 years in prison.
In determining whether to reduce the sentence, the court is to consider many factors, including whether the individual has demonstrated maturity and demonstrated sufficient rehabilitation to safely return to the community.

Recently, Councilmember Charles Allen introduced the Second Look Amendment Act of 2019 to amend the IRAA to further align with the latest research regarding the emerging adult population. Specifically, if passed, the Second Look Amendment Act will expand the opportunity to request re-sentencing to young adults who committed their offense between the ages of 18-25 and would hold all IRAA candidates awaiting re-sentencing in DC’s Correctional Treatment Facility. While this legislation doesn’t guarantee release, it provides for a meaningful sentence review.

Once again, under this bill no one would be guaranteed a sentence reduction or given one automatically; people would merely get a chance to prove they deserve freedom. Second look sentencing gives people an incentive to reform and improve themselves.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please. Be quiet.

The thread was quiet for 24 hours until you opened your big mouth stupid. Follow your own advice if you want solace.

Solace? I want whoever the PP is to not draw equivalence between drug dealing and being part of national prison reform for 80s crack crimes and directly murdering or violating someone and being pardoned in 15 years because you were 25 at the time. #notthesame

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh please. Be quiet.

The thread was quiet for 24 hours until you opened your big mouth stupid. Follow your own advice if you want solace.

Anonymous wrote:Oh please. Be quiet.

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Anonymous wrote:In February, one of President Donald Trump’s guests at the State of the Union, Matthew Charles, received a standing ovation from both Democrats and Republicans because of his extraordinary rehabilitation.

Charles served 21 years in federal prison without a single disciplinary infraction, yet he would have been forced to spend nearly an additional decade behind bars had Congress not passed the First Step Act.

The truth is that every day, all across the country, many state and federal prisoners are actively rehabilitating themselves as Charles did, through education, religious commitment, substance abuse treatment or behavioral counseling. Others simply needed time to grow up or realize the error of their ways. Unlike Charles, however, most of these individuals do not get released early. And thousands of them are serving excessive sentences, usually due to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, including three-strikes and habitual-offender laws. About a quarter of the federal prison population is serving a sentence of at least 15 years without any chance for parole.

Hmmmm….did he rape and murder people. Please finish the story. We are all listening .

Anonymous wrote:The democrat felon fetish needs to end

Anonymous wrote:In February, one of President Donald Trump’s guests at the State of the Union, Matthew Charles, received a standing ovation from both Democrats and Republicans because of his extraordinary rehabilitation.

Charles served 21 years in federal prison without a single disciplinary infraction, yet he would have been forced to spend nearly an additional decade behind bars had Congress not passed the First Step Act.

The truth is that every day, all across the country, many state and federal prisoners are actively rehabilitating themselves as Charles did, through education, religious commitment, substance abuse treatment or behavioral counseling. Others simply needed time to grow up or realize the error of their ways. Unlike Charles, however, most of these individuals do not get released early. And thousands of them are serving excessive sentences, usually due to mandatory minimum sentencing laws, including three-strikes and habitual-offender laws. About a quarter of the federal prison population is serving a sentence of at least 15 years without any chance for parole.

Anonymous wrote:The democrat felon fetish needs to end

Anonymous wrote:So if this passes, an individual who was, say, convicted of a homicide offense at age 24 and is 15 years into a 40 year sentence may petition for early release?