What, two million incarcerated, the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world, more young black men in prison than in college, and one-out-of-three black men under criminal justice supervision (prison, parole, or probation) isn’t enough for you?
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, saying that some federal judges are imposing light sentences, called on Congress on Tuesday to require the jurists to follow uniform guidelines for punishments.
He urged Congress to pass a law to fix what he called the “increasing disparity in sentences and a drift toward lesser sentences” since the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that mandatory sentencing guidelines were unconstitutional.
Now, you know he’s not ranting about light sentences for murderers, rapists, thieves, and white-collar criminals, right? Between Quaintzalez’s wishes and nonSense’n’bluster’s Snitch Bill, we’ll have a federal prison bursting at the seams in every area code. 15,000,000 prisoners, here we come!
