Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015

Legislation that would slash mandatory minimum sentences for drug traffickers has little chance of passing in the final two months of President Obama’s term, and virtually no chance of becoming law under a President Donald Trump.

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.

A bipartisan elite is trying to revive the stalled ‘sentencing reform’ legislation to release many more convicts back onto Americans’ neighborhoods, amid an existing crime wave. The unpopular legislation is being pushed in the GOP’s 2016 platform by President Obama, by business groups trying to curb white-collar prosecutions, and by House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said this month “that’s something we’re working on for September.”

Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Chuck Grassley of Iowa made a last-ditch plea for sentencing reductions for federal prisoners amid high-profile cop massacres, a heroin epidemic, and a national crime wave on Wednesday evening.

The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act (SRCA) that promised to slash sentences for federal prisoners, from which drug traffickers would largely benefit, has died in the Senate, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said Thursday. The Senate bill would “would drastically reduce mandatory minimum sentences for all drug traffickers, even those who are armed and traffic in dangerous drugs like heroin,” as chief opponent Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions warned.

Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton declared Thursday it’s “impossible” to reduce sentences for drug dealers and violent felons without seeing crime rise—a “trade-off” he charged that advocates of federal prison sentencing reductions largely ignore.

Sen. Jeff Sessions warns that Congress must be careful to ensure the sentencing reductions bills pending before Congress did not boost already rising crime rates and “sign death warrants” for innocent victims.

The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (SRCA) is only the beginning of a series of massive sentencing reductions for convicts that progressive supporters want, said New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker on Tuesday, including the complete elimination of mandatory minimums.

Why, you might ask, are these liberals so anxious to turn violent criminals free? What is to be gained, you might wonder, by having these felons – many of whom will again be trafficking in drugs and committing violent crimes in the process – wandering around our cities, contributing to the heroin epidemic, and leaving thousands of victims in their wake?

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio joined Republicans opposed to the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (SRCA), saying that he can’t back a bill releasing federal inmates as violent crime sweeps across American cities.

Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions criticized right-leaning organizations pushing the prison sentencing reduction bill, The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Bill of 2015 (SRCA), on Sunday, calling some “shell groups” helping the Obama administration empty federal prisons.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke said at a Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday that a series of “lies” fueled the bipartisan effort pushing the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act.

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke issued scathing criticism of the bipartisan-backed Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act on Wednesday, slamming the “criminal-friendly” bill as legislation based on lies and likely to leave more violent crime victims in its wake.

On Breitbart News Daily Thursday morning, adjunct Georgetown professor and contributor to Crime and Consequences Bill Otis criticized Republicans supporting the “dangerous” Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, saying it threatens to reverse decades of lower crime rates.

Texas Republican Lamar Smith said Wednesday the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 never accounts for crime victims, but focuses solely on high-level drug traffickers and freeing them prematurely from prison.

The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act will pose a serious threat to public safety — and tens of thousands of federal inmates are already being released on previous sentencing reduction measures, said Republican Louisiana Sen. David Vitter on Wednesday. “The

President Barack Obama’s deputies are working hard to reduce prosecution of serious crimes while cheering a Republican-backed bill that will spring many criminals out of federal prison, Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions warned on Wednesday.

BENNETT: The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act now before Congress is based on a lie — that drug dealing is not a violent crime. Americans have been told this lie for years even as we witness the violence and death caused by drug dealers in our communities. Now, this lie is propelling legislation through Congress that will destroy more lives.

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s pending jail-sentence reduction bill would wreck the minority communities it’s purportedly helping, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights member Peter Kirsanow says in a letter to the Iowa senator.

Members of Congress are upset that we have too many criminals in federal prison. Prisons cost the taxpayers too much, they claim, and incarceration disrupts the criminals’ family lives. They decry the unfair mass incarceration of “low level” offenders, and tell us that the system is racist because a disproportionate number of minorities are in prison. Let them out, they claim, and try to “rehabilitate” them while they roam the streets once again.

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.”

Andy McCarthy, a senior fellow at National Review and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about the pending sentencing reform bill. McCarthy

Alfred S. Regnery joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon Monday morning to discuss a troubling sentencing reduction bill currently making its way through Congress in part with help from some conservatives — adding Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell must be convinced not to bring it up.

A New Jersey man is back in custody and pleading guilty after allegedly killing his own mother only two days after being released from serving a 30-year sentence for a previous murder.

After decades of a steadily falling murder rate, the number of Americans killed in 2015 jumped 16 percent. But despite this hefty increase, House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP leadership seem headed toward joining President Obama to push a “reform” that would feature reductions in federal criminal sentences.

Law enforcement organizations across the country strongly oppose Republican efforts to empower Democrats to release thousands of convicts back onto the streets amid a nation-wide crime surge by passing the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015.