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Ron Paul See other Ron Paul Articles Title: Trump Admin’s Criminal Justice Reform ‘Overwhelmingly’ Helping Black Prisoners Trump Admin’s Criminal Justice Reform ‘Overwhelmingly’ Helping Black Prisoners By Joe Saunders Published June 10, 2019 at 10:38am These are the kinds of numbers that give Democrats nightmares. With their hopes for defeating President Donald Trump in 2020 depending largely on turning out the black vote in its usual monolithic numbers, Democrats have been relentless in trying to paint the Trump administration as an unadulterated evil for African-Americans. But a report released this month by the U.S. Sentencing Commission just made that job many, many times harder. The report found that the First Step Act of 2018, a criminal sentencing reform bill passed by a Republican Congress and signed by Trump in December 2018, had benefited black prisoners incarcerated in the federal prison system in numbers far greater than other races. Among the key findings for all prisoners, as highlighted by Washington Examiner commentator Paul Bedard in a piece last week headlined “Feds: Kushner’s criminal justice reform working, blacks benefit overwhelmingly”: • 1,051 motions were granted for a reduced sentence. More to the point when it comes to the political optics, though, the beneficiaries of those sentence reductions have been mainly black inmates, according to the report. Only 4.3 percent of prisoners receiving reduced sentences have been white. More than 90 percent have been black. And more than 98 percent of them have been male. Those numbers reflect cases processed through April 30, according to the report, so that’s the effect of the law after only four months in existence. But even in that short time frame, it’s pretty clear that the law’s impacts are a direct challenge to the Democratic Party’s accusations of racism against the Trump White House. This is an administration, remember, that has overseen an economy that has brought the unemployment rate among black Americans to historic lows. It’s even drawn support from surprising places, such as rap superstar Kanye West. Now, black Americans are the main beneficiaries of a sentencing reform bill that was passed when Republicans held majorities in both houses of Congress and signed by a president whom liberals, Democrats and their propaganda arm in the mainstream media have spent years now vilifying as a “racist.” One of the chief offenders in that canard has been 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden. As a senator, Biden was one of the authors of the 1994 crime bill that is the main reason for the country’s high incarceration rate today, particularly among black Americans (it’s a contribution he continues to defend, as CNN noted last week). Poster Comment: TRUMP 2020! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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