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The Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, the media conglomerate which includes Fox News, has endorsed wide-sweeping prison reform legislation.

Increasing border enforcement is the second biggest priority for all American voters, just after boosting the economy, a new poll reveals. 

The FIRST STEP Act, a White House-endorsed U.S. Senate criminal justice reform bill, would allow for the early release of people convicted of female genital mutilations, emails between Justice Department and Senate GOP officials obtained exclusively by Breitbart News show.

Looking at the latest primetime schedule. it is almost all government-is-good, government-is-your-savior, government-is-righteous propaganda.

A group of black conservatives spent Wednesday lobbying senators in support of criminal justice reform through the First Step Act.

In the systematic dismantling of common sense in America, Jared Kushner’s “sentencing reform” bill is the coup de grace — a Mack Truck hurtling down the highway about to take out thousands of Americans. The Idiot Army is already in place to fight and win this battle.

Kelley Paul, the wife of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), sat down with Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House last week to offer her thoughts on why criminal justice reform is needed in America.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) offered his thoughts on who should replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions during an interview with Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House. 

In the 2016 presidential election, “Law and order” became a hallmark of President Trump’s campaign, wherein he would routinely blast weak-on-crime politicians.

The vast majority of Americans oppose reducing penalties and sentences for drug traffickers who have helped fuel the country’s opioid crisis that has now killed than the Vietnam War. 

New Orleans Saints players Demario Davis and Ben Watson are fighting hard for criminal justice reform, and they’re making some progress.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reality television star Kim Kardashian West, who successfully pushed President Donald Trump to grant a pardon for a drug offender earlier this year, returned to the White House on Wednesday for a meeting with senior aides as part of the administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform.

It would be excessive to call the opioid crisis an orchestrated conspiracy, but it certainly does have aspects of a manufactured crisis: a problem created by politicians and then exploited by them to advance various agendas. Loose borders created the problem by allowing a tidal wave of deadly street drugs into the United States. Politicians are using the resulting crisis to attack the pharmaceutical industry and the criminal justice system. We could end up releasing an enormous number of criminals from prison because the drug epidemic put too many people in jail.

Proposition 47, the criminal justice reform initiative passed by California voters in 2014, has won the Independent Institute’s “Golden Fleece Award,” for a “state or local agency or government initiative that swindles taxpayers or breaks the public trust.”

Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill was reportedly convinced by fellow rap star Jay-Z to back out of a scheduled meeting at the White House on prison reform with President Donald Trump.

Thursday, rapper Meek Mill joined as a guest on ESPN’s “First Take” to talk criminal justice reform just weeks after being released from prison while he appeals decade-old gun and drug convictions. “I feel like I got a job to participate

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have reportedly been hosting dinners with top Democratic and Republican lawmakers for months.

A fifth-grade student from the elementary school that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) attended kicked off Harris’ Oakland town hall event on Wednesday by reciting the pledge of allegiance in English and Spanish.

An unidentified man approached Fox News host Kat Timpf in New York City, allegedly doused her head with a bottle of water, and threw the rest of it in her face.

Liberal legislators in Sacramento are continuing their efforts to change California’s criminal justice system with a new proposal for “bail reform” that leaves victims of crime out in the cold.

The so-called “bail reform movement” is part of the institutional left’s multi-pronged attack on America’s criminal justice system, and the progressive battle to do away with what they refer to as “money bail” is being fought across America, from Hawaii to New Jersey, from San Francisco to Baltimore—even as the Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are fighting to restore the rule of law.

The Charles Koch Institute and rapper Snoop Dogg will team up to host a panel on criminal justice reform at South by Southwest (SXSW) later this month.

A document of guiding principles for this Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington to protest inauguration weekend asks for criminal justice reform for women, despite 93% of American inmates being men.

There are 17 propositions on the California ballot next month. They range from good, to bad, to downright ugly.

Supporters of the criminal justice rewrite continue to urge Congress to vote on legislation that has languished in both the House and the Senate for months.

Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan re-affirmed his support for pending legislation that would slash sentences for many federal criminal inmates, saying he wants to get the bill to President Barack Obama’s desk before the next congressional session begins in 2017.

Leaks from billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) have revealed the group has a list of MEPs it considers “reliable allies” which includes IRA bomber Martina Anderson. Documents show the NGO, which works worldwide to mould government policies, set

It’s no secret that George Soros is a big advocate of U.S. criminal justice reform. It is also no secret that he has provided big money to the empty-the-prison groups and others. Until a few days ago, however, we didn’t know just how big a role Soros played. Republicans — and particularly conservatives — who have bought into the criminal justice reform initiative, may have been drawn into something other than what they saw on the surface.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke was strongly critical of President Obama’s decision to issue a record number of pardons to felons, and the sentencing reform bill currently making its way through Congress, during his appearance on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily.

Voters’ support for law and order is growing as the death toll from the post-2014 murder spike nears 1,500.

The 2016 GOP platform tries to revive a stalled political deal that would allow Democrats to release thousands of criminals if Republicans also get new rules that restrict the prosecution of white-collar executives for violating federal business regulations.

House Speaker Paul Ryan intends to bring up legislation that would reduce sentences for federal prison inmates.

Governor Jerry Brown has placed before voters this November a ballot measure deceptively titled the “Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016” – when it might be more accurately dubbed the “Let Violent Criminals Out Of Prison Early Act of 2016.”

The Washington Post reports that there are many issues where “Hillary Clinton and Paul Ryan could make a deal.”

The current political push for “criminal justice” reform is picking up bipartisan support in Congress, but a look at the history of the “prison reform” shows movement shows the leftists driving the effort have a dangerous agenda rooted in revolutionary communism.

During his Monday morning appearance on Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and National Review senior fellow Andy McCarthy described the sentencing reform bill that could slash mandatory minimum sentences as the product of an unhealthy political alliance — “the worst combination of bad elements coming together.”