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<em>Now</em> Hillary Clinton Cares About Criminal Justice Reform (Reason Magazine – Hit and Run)
In what MSNBC is calling "her strongest comments yet this year on criminal justice", former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in on the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases Thursday, calling for grappling with "hard truths" and restoring "balance" to a criminal justice system rife with "unnecessary incarceration".
I'll pause for a moment to let you roll your eyes.
Clinton's laments ring a little false, considering her history on criminal justice issues. Here's Clinton in 1994:
> We need more police, we need more and tougher prison sentences for repeat offenders. The three strikes and you’re out for violent offenders has to be part of the plan. We need more prisons to keep violent offenders for as long as it takes to keep them off the streets.
As First Lady, Clinton lobbied for her husband's crime bill, which (among other things) encouraged states to enact harsher sentencing statutes and expanded the list of crimes subject to the federal death penalty. In 2001, Clinton co-sponsored a bill to provide more funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes. In her 2006 book _It Takes a Village_, Clinton praised stricter punishments for people charged with sex crimes.
In 2007, she voted to reinstate …
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Air Date: February 15, 2006. This broadcast prepares Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) members for the types of hazards encountered after a disaster and discusses safety while working in the disaster affected area. E202
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