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File Name | S22-Policy-NCFCA-34-NEG-DCParole.docx |
File Size | 103.53 KB |
Date added | January 3, 2022 |
Category | Policy (NCFCA) |
Author | Luke Carlsen |
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its policies regarding convicted prisoners under federal jurisdiction
Case Summary: The US Parole Commission and the federal Bureau of Prisons currently have jurisdiction over offenders who committed their crimes in the District of Columbia. DC offenders are locked in federal prisons, regardless of what type of crime they committed. A local “city” crime or a big “federal” crime, doesn’t matter, all DC offenders go to federal prison because the Constitution gives the federal government jurisdiction over the District. There is no “state” prison in DC because it’s not a state. Some DC prisoners are eligible for parole and most of them will at some point be eligible for “supervised release” (operates very much like parole, except not called that). AFF plan removes jurisdiction of the US Parole Commission over DC offenders and hands responsibility back to the local government of DC, where it used to be until 1998, when the federal government took it over. The Plan hands it back and tells DC to create their own Parole Board, which a lot of DC political leaders, including the Mayor of Washington DC, advocate. Unfortunately, though DC claims to want this plan, they actually have taken no actions that they need to take to implement it. It has been offered to them in the past and they ignore it, even while saying they want it.
And the goal of the plan, to get more parole and let DC offenders out of prison more often, is a bad goal. Parole is a bad thing, and the less we grant it, the better.