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Newt Gingrich, Pat Nolan: Our criminal justice system is badly broken. That’s why the First Step Act matters
OPINION - By Newt Gingrich, Pat Dolan | Fox News
Jam-packed agenda awaits lawmakers' return to Washington
President Trump urges lawmakers to pass criminal justice reform, secure border wall funding before new Congress takes office.
America’s criminal justice system is badly broken, and the next few weeks will determine the fate of efforts to fix it.
We should not continue pouring billions of dollars into a system that releases offenders who are more dangerous than when they entered prison, leaves victims’ needs unmet, and causes our communities to live in fear of crime.
But unless the U.S. Senate passes the First Step Act before the end of the year, the terrible status quo in our federal criminal justice system will continue.
Here are a few ways the current federal system fails us:
The first priority of government is to keep our people safe.
Violent, dangerous criminals belong in prison, and the cost of incarcerating them is money well spent. But we are overusing imprisonment. More than half of all people in federal prisons for drug offenses have no violent history, and more than one-quarter have no prior criminal history. Prisons are for people we are afraid of, but we are locking up a lot of people because we’re just mad at them.
Roughly half of people released from prison in the United States re-offend.
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