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>>>Yes the guilty ones- depending upon the crime. Society would be better served if some of the guilty ones were not though - take for example all of the first-time non-violent drug offenders that are clogging our judicial system and jails - no point in them being there if you ask me.
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>>You might want to do some research on the political party affiliation and demographics of political leaders in the 1990's who pushes for those hard sentences. The results might surprise you. :)
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>Bill Clinton's era is responsible for all those harsh sentences - which he now says was a mistake that needs to be fixed, as does HRC. I do not know what Trump's stance on this is.

The "canard" here is the concept of 'non violent drug offenders'. That's what many of them were allowed to plead down to - the truth is that many of the original actions were much worse.

This is yet another example of dishonesty from the political left.