New York State Legislature passed bills that would allow non-violent parole violators to dodge jail time and eliminate arrests of youth offenders under the age of twelve.
The Less is More Act, sponsored by Democratic Senior Assistant Majority Leader Brian Benjamin, will stop the practice of re-incarcerating offenders for technical parole violations with exceptions for those that endanger public safety.
Under the act, parolees will also be eligible to receive “earned time credits” for good behavior, and will have access to counsel if they end up back in the parole revocation process. During the same session, a juvenile justice bill was passed to raise the age children could be arrested and prosecuted at from seven to twelve years old
“Today we took a historic step towards fundamentally changing how the justice system treats children and ending the destructive cycles of youth incarceration. This bill will help keep children out of the systems that have disproportionately harmed young people of color,” Democratic state Sen. Jamaal Bailey said in a press release.
In 2019, 890 children under 12 were arrested in the state, and as many as 90% of the kids taken into custody in New York City were Black or Latino. The new bill would restrict authorities from arresting and fingerprinting pre-teen offenders, instead police will coordinate with social services to get them into support programs. Children under 13 will also be prevented from being placed into secure detention facilities.
Additional criminal reform legislation failed to pass during the session. The Clean Slate Act would have automatically sealed records of convicted criminals three years after sentencing for misdemeanors and seven years after felonies.
A bill that would require the state parole board to begin evaluating if prisoners over 55 would be a “significant public safety risk” if they were released didn’t make the cut, and another that would require automatic parole for prisoners once they served their minimum sentence was also rejected.
That will be the biggest mistake ever.
Build a wall around New York, evacuate the people with clean records and let the vermin exterminate each other. To limit collateral damage issue them only hand guns.
Then they can be truly free of our boring morality and rule of law.
If we could do this for Chicago and a few other cities, we could provide free transportation from cities with law and order to these free fire zones of anarchy, and even give them extra money to increase welfare payments as further bait.
While it may seem harsh, this is simply the application of Darwinism to cultural science. The best cure for cannibalism is to give them better cutlery, while isolating them. Chow down boys. LOL
make the politicians and judges stay in there with them.
It’s not a mistake it is the liberals intentional support of criminals
See crime rise in city then??
everything to benefit the criminal. NY will devolve into a third world hellhole. too bad it was a nice city to visit in the past. Now it’s too dangerous.
Great idea!!! Now don’t forget to defund the police
Hey Marie Finn,
It’s Democrat Senior Assistant Majority Leader. Not Democratic Senior Assistant Majority Leader.
I’m tired of you so called Journalists saying, Democratic. It’s not Democratic, it’s Democrat. Democrat Representative, Democrat Senator, Democrat Party. Get the idea? Not Democratic this or Democratic that. There is no Democratic Party, it’s Democrat Party. There is nothing Democratic about Democrats. You never see the word Republicanite used to describe Republicans or the party. So stop saying Democratic.