![]() The president is echoing what liberal criminologists and lawyers have long charged. Three days earlier, he had commuted the federal prison terms of 46 nonviolent drug offenders, most of whom had been sentenced to at least 20 years’ imprisonment. Speaking immediately after his visit, the president blamed mandatory drug sentencing as a “primary driver of this mass-incarceration phenomenon.” To underscore that point, he met with half a dozen inmates at the prison, all of whom had been convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. ![]() Two days later, Obama became the first sitting president to visit a prison. Somehow, the liberal narrative about mass incarceration never gets around to the fact that most felons are in prison for committing violent crimes. ![]() Bibas explodes many of the liberal myths about “mass incarceration” - not the least of which is that people are in jail because they committed a crime, not because police are roaming the streets herding people into prisons.
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