BUSINESS/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) held its annual meeting in April, activists insisted it stop financing private prison companies. On Wednesday [6-26-19], Bank of America did exactly that, distancing itself from a sector that has triggered protests over its links to the Trump administration’s immigration policy and concerns about detention center […]
Category: Prisons
11/14/2018
IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-14-18] announced his support for a bipartisan prison reform bill, called the FIRST Step Act…Trump added that the White House pledge ‘to ‘Hire American’ includes those leaving prison and looking for a very fresh start — new job, new life.’ Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared […]
11/14/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/HOUSE OF REPS/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump threw his support behind a substantial revision of the nation’s prison and sentencing laws on Wednesday [11-14-18], opening a potential path to enacting the most significant changes to the criminal justice system in a generation. The tentative legislative package, developed by a bipartisan group of senators and […]
11/14/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/JARED KUSHNER/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [11-14-18] backed a criminal justice reform plan being pushed by one of his top advisers, son-in-law Jared Kushner. The ‘First Step Act,’ developed by Kushner and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, is designed to improve rehabilitation programs for former prisoners and give judges more discretion […]
11/14/2018
PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our pledge to hire American includes those leaving prison and looking for a very fresh start — new job, and new life. The legislation I am supporting today contains many significant reforms. Read more here: https://t.co/BwQ3qd9Fyk https://t.co/6DUY9KNTpR“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 14, 2018 6:26 pm […]
11/14/2018
DEMS/GOP/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I am grateful to be here today w/ Members of the House & Senate who have poured their time, heart and energy into the crucial issue of Prison Reform. Working together w/ my Admin over the last two years, these members have reached a bipartisan agreement…https://t.co/wflidv2cZr“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 14, 2018 […]
11/14/2018
PRISONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says he’s ‘thrilled’ to support a bipartisan bill to reform federal sentencing guidelines. The legislation is the first major rewrite of the nation’s criminal justice sentencing laws in a generation. Lawmakers reached agreement this week on legislation that would boost rehabilitation efforts for federal prisoners and give judges more […]
11/13/2018
CONGRESS/JARED KUSHNER/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is expected to throw his support behind bipartisan criminal justice legislation during an event at the White House on Wednesday [11-14-18], two sources close to the process said. Trump is scheduled to announce on Wednesday that he is supporting the latest iteration of the First Step Act, a […]
11/12/2018
CONGRESS/JARED KUSHNER/PRISONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “White House officials and a bipartisan group of senators are mounting an ambitious effort to push criminal justice legislation through Congress by the end of the year, four sources close to the process told CNN. But first, Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, who has been leading the […]
11/12/2018
AFRICAN AMERICANS/PRISONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A bipartisan group of senators has reached a tentative deal on the most substantial rewrite of the nation’s sentencing and prison laws in a generation, giving judges more latitude to sidestep mandatory minimum sentences and easing drug sentences that have incarcerated African-Americans at much higher rates than white offenders. The lawmakers […]
10/11/2018
CELEBS/GOP/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said the criminal justice system was unfair to African-Americans and he would discuss remedies on Thursday [10-11-18] with musician Kanye West and former football player Jim Brown. The Republican president has advocated prison reform and said he was open to changes in sentencing guidelines, an issue that divides the […]
8/23/2018
CRIME/GOP/JARED KUSHNER/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [8-23-18] tabled a criminal justice package being pushed by a group of lawmakers and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, multiple sources said. But Trump and Republican leaders also agreed on a path forward for the legislative effort after the midterm elections, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch […]
8/23/2018
JEFF SESSIONS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department on Thursday [8-23-18] praised President Donald Trump’s decision not to back a prison and sentencing reform bill that was crafted by top Republican leaders and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser…Trump met with Kushner, who has made prison reform a priority; Attorney General Jeff Sessions and […]
8/17/2018
GOP/PRISONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Criminal justice reform advocates are escalating their push to shake loose a bipartisan prisons bill backed by President Donald Trump that’s been stalled in the Senate — despite few signs that a long-running GOP rift on the issue has healed. Trump has stepped up his own calls for a deal on the […]
8/3/2018
AFRICAN AMERICAN/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “’Pastor praises Trump as ‘pro-black’ at prison reform event’ https://t.co/xFKf1arebx“ -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2018 3:31 pm […]
7/2/2018
ICE/IMMIGRATION/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s new push for more federal detention facilities for immigrants awaiting asylum hearings or deportation has brightened the outlook for the country’s two largest private prison operators. Tennessee-based CoreCivic Inc. and Florida-based Geo Group had already been helped by higher federal spending on Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Now, the Trump […]
6/8/2018
BORDER/IMMIGRATION/JEFF SESSIONS/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has already led to overrun detention facilities, long lines of asylum seekers camping out at the U.S.-Mexico border and a decision to separate young children from their parents indefinitely. Now, the administration is sending more than 1,600 immigrants — including some of those parents […]
6/8/2018
ICE/IMMIGRATION/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday [6-7-18], in the first large-scale use of federal prisons to hold detainees amid a Trump administration crackdown on people entering the country illegally. An ICE spokeswoman told Reuters five federal prisons will […]
6/6/2018
CELEBS/PARDONS/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a first-time nonviolent drug offender, a week after Kim Kardashian West pleaded her case during an Oval Office meeting with Trump. Johnson has already served 21 years of a life sentence after she was convicted on charges of conspiracy to possess […]
5/30/2018
CELEBS/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Kim Kardashian West met with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday [5-30-18], and the subject seemed an unlikely one for a glamorous celebrity and cosmetics mogul: prison reform. But the reason for Ms. Kardashian West’s interest is the case of Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old Tennessee woman who, according to the […]
5/24/2018
JARED KUSHNER/JEFF SESSIONS/PRISONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Jared Kushner hosted a high-profile summit meeting on federal prison reform at the White House last Friday [5-18-18], some in attendance noticed that the man who was ostensibly in charge of the federal prison system, Mark S. Inch, a retired Army major general, was nowhere in sight. Only Mr. Kushner […]
5/22/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/PRISONS/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House of Representatives on Tuesday [5-22-18] passed a bill backed by the White House aimed at improving federal prisons that faces steep opposition in the Senate and among advocates of criminal justice revisions. The First Step Act, sponsored by Georgia’s GOP Rep. Doug Collins and New York’s Democratic Rep. […]
5/18/2018
DEMS/GOP/PRISON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [5-18-18] urged Congress to overhaul the nation’s prison system and help more former inmates re-enter society, hoping to jump-start legislation that’s facing fresh opposition from Democrats. Trump said at a White House forum that a prison overhaul ‘unites people from across the political spectrum’ and that lawmakers […]
5/18/2018
PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “America is a Nation that believes in the power of redemption. America is a Nation that believes in second chances – and America is a Nation that believes that the best is always yet to come! #PrisonReform https://t.co/Yk5UJUYgHN” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 18, 2018 3:22 pm […]
5/18/2018
DEMS/GOP/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [5-18-18] embraced a bipartisan prison reform proposal, but a sharp divide among Democrats on the issue threatens to undermine the deal. The discord was on display Friday as Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York circulated a scathing letter accusing fellow Democrats of trying to tank the effort […]
2/14/2017
IMMIGRATION/PRISONS: “When John Chavez peers through chain link and razor wire into the vast tent city that once housed one of the nation’s most notorious prisons for immigrants, he does not see a failed experiment. Two years ago, inmates set fire to the sprawling complex in protest of poor medical conditions, slashing holes in their […]