Lawmakers: Thousands Of Violent Felons To Be Released In November Under New Sentencing Guidelines

The Daily Caller – by Kerry Picket

WASHINGTON — Thousands of dangerous federal prison inmates will be released in November as a result of the U.S. Sentencing Commission’s decision to lower federal sentencing for all drug trafficking and distribution crimes, two Republican lawmakers warned Tuesday.

According to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, the release will include inmates with violent criminal histories who committed crimes involving assault, firearms, and even murder.  

Goodlatte and Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch Wednesday asking for more information about these inmates including a history of offenses for each offender projected release date, any known aliases of the offender along with the full legal name, the offender’s country of citizenship, and whether BOP has notified or intends to notify ICE about the release of any unlawful criminal aliens.

“It is our understanding that tens of thousands of federal inmates are eligible for early release as a result, and that the BOP inmate population will fall by more than 12,000 inmates by the end of fiscal year 2016. Overall, the Sentencing Commission has estimated that 46,376 prisoners are eligible for early release under Amendment 782 — with nearly 8,000 offenders eligible for immediate release on November 1, 2015,” they wrote.

Last year, the Sentencing Commission made a two-level reduction, through Amendment 782, in the base offense levels for all drug trafficking and distribution offenses — including those that impose mandatory minimum sentences. Those reductions are retroactive and apply to every drug offense inmate in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons. Thousands of inmates filed motions for sentence reductions in their jurisdictions within the last year.

Grassley and Goodlatte initially sent a letter to the Commission when changes to the sentences were first being considered last year, but say their requests for further information were ignored.

They wrote in their March 2014 letter, “We understand that the Commission’s objective is to lower sentences for so called ‘low-level non violent’ drug offenders who have nevertheless triggered mandatory minimum sentence by trafficking large quantities of drugs. However, this amendment would reduce the base offense level and corresponding guideline range for all drug defendants. The result of the Sentencing Commission’s proposal will be to reward drug traffickers and distributors who possessed a firearm, committed a crime of violence, or had prior convictions.”

Congress is expected to take up legislation relating to mandatory sentencing reform in the near future.

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3 thoughts on “Lawmakers: Thousands Of Violent Felons To Be Released In November Under New Sentencing Guidelines

  1. “….the release will include inmates with violent criminal histories who committed crimes involving assault, firearms, and even murder.”

    I’m wiling to bet that every inmate released will be a wetback, and every white American behind bars will stay there. The crack-head in the White House doesn’t want his imported crime wave to lose any steam, so these pieces of trash will be released into society to kill your daughter after they’re done raping her.

    And of course, the crime wave will demand that your guns be confiscated. They’ll use local pigs to confiscate the firearms of everyone who defends themselves from the wetbacks. After you shoot the bastards to protect your family, your house is a “‘crime scene”, and all of your guns will be taken until “the investigation is complete”, which of course, will never happen, and the next gang of wetbacks to force themselves into your home will have a real party.

    SHOOT ANYONE who tries to disarm you. You have to realize by now that you’re under attack, and allowing your enemy to remove your guns is just another form of suicide.

    1. “They’ll use local pigs to confiscate the firearms of everyone who defends themselves from the wetbacks.”

      And they’ll all be dead within the first month after the SHTF.

      Or hiding in a hole somewhere.

  2. No, No,… you guys got it all wrong! Obama is releasing those 47 felons who were sentenced to harshly for there crimes, (wink, wink). The others released after them are for something else. He’s going to give them ‘Federal’ jobs. With Federal benefits. You know,… that civilian army he talked about that is just as well trained and just as well funded as the U.S. military. There’s no need to think they will do anything wrong. Just because the Constitution is under attack, there’s no reason to think our ‘Liberties are at risk. When they knock on you door to ask for your weapons, just tell them you already gave them up. They’ll just shrug, and leave. Yeah, right!
    I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up, I was told, ‘If you’re bullied at school, knock the ‘Hell’ out-a-them! I didn’t agree to meet them at the flag pole after school, I climbed his ass on the spot!… If we continue to play by their rules, well, you can expect to catch the short end of the deal! The sheeple will continue to be sheeple. We, as America’s defenders must step ‘Forward’ , display the ‘Honor’ befitting an American Patriot! If not, you can’t claim to be a ‘Patriot’, can you?…

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