PETITION TO INCREASE FEDERAL GOODTIME ||| FedCURE ~c2a ~ ||| #SOTU2014 | #AskObama2014 28 January 2014: Dear FedCURE Members, Supporters & Friends: President Obamas Fifth State of the Union address is Today - Tuesday 28 January 2014. Hangout Road Trip with the President on Google+ & FedCURE on Friday the 31st. Record a 60-second video question for the President urging him to support the BARBER AMENDMENT. Act Now! #AskObama2014 Now is the time to speak the the President to urge him to support the BARBER AMENDMENT - A proposed bill that would double good time allowances for federal offenders. For details on the BARBER AMENDMENT, please go here: fedcure.org/documents/HR1475.shtml You can Record a 60-second video question for the opportunity to participate in the Hangout Road Trip with the President. See below and the links to the BARBER AMENDMENT for information you can use in making your video. Act Now! whitehouse.gov/share/join-virtual-road-trip-president. FedCURE on Google+ Hangouts: miniurl/aQkY FedCUREs messaging to President Obama at: https://plus.google/110213623400785838715/posts/4hER4x8VumU Greetings Mr. President: On behalf of our members, supporters and millions of friends, over 41,000 people who have signed the BARBER AMENDMENT petition on Change.org, our constituents of some 220,000 federal inmates, their families, friends and associates, FedCURE pleads with you, to no end, to support the BARBER AMENDMENT ~ a proposed bill that would double good time allowances for federal offenders; and thereby, safely reduce the federal prison population and shift $1.2 billion incarceration dollars to $1.2 billion reentry dollars. For details on the BARBER AMENDMENT, please go here: fedcure.org/documents/HR1475.shtml. Respectfully, Mark A. Varca, J.D., Chairman, FedCURE on Google+ Hangouts: miniurl/aQkY ------- PASS IT ON ! FedCURE From the White House: Dear FedCURE and its Members, On Tuesday, President Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union address to members of Congress and to the American people. On Friday, President Obama will take a virtual road trip across the country via Google+ Hangouts to discuss the issues and policies laid out in the speech with citizens joining from around the country. whitehouse.gov/share/join-virtual-road-trip-president Want to come along for the ride? Here’s how you can participate: Record your video question now. Record a 60-second video question for the opportunity to participate in the Hangout Road Trip with the President. Be sure to include your name, location, a bit about yourself and the question you’d like to ask. Then, post it on YouTube (miniurl/aQk3) or Google+ (miniurl/6Ebb) with the hashtag #AskObama2014 (miniurl/f2tq). Watch the enhanced State of Union. Tune in to Whitehouse.gov (miniurl/f2tw) on January 28th at 9pm ET to watch President Obamas address live and enhanced with data, graphs and charts that explain the policies and issues hell be discussing in the speech. Join the Hangout Road Trip. Everyone is invited to tune-in for the first-ever Presidential Hangout Road Trip on Friday, January 31st. You can watch it all live on the White House YouTube page, Google+ and on WhiteHouse.gov/SOTU. Be sure to follow the White House on Google+ for the latest updates on the Presidential Hangout Road Trip – and to learn about other Hangouts with Obama administration officials. The White House uses Google+ Hangouts to engage with citizens on issues from science and technology and immigration reform to holidays at the White House and the First Ladys Lets Move! initiative. After his 2012 and 2013 State of the Union addresses, President Obama joined virtual conversations with Americans to discuss the issues that matter most. You can watch video of those hangouts here and here. We’re always looking for ways to engage with citizens online -- and that’s why we’re kicking off a series of online engagement events with White House officials starting right after the speech. Find out all the ways you can engage with the 2014 State of the Union at: WhiteHouse.gov/SOTU. Blessings, Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships U.S. Department of Justice ojp.gov/fbnp ------- The State of FBOP OVERCROWDING ~ 2014 BOP projects that its system-wide crowding will continue to rise to 44 percent over rated capacity by 2018. Top Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of Justice - 2013: Addressing the Growing Crisis in the Federal Prison System. Attached to this memorandum is the Office of the Inspector Generals (OIG) 2013 list of top management and performance challenges facing the Department of Justice (Department), which we have identified based on our oversight work, research, and judgment. We have prepared similar lists since 1998. By statute this list is required to be included in the Departments Agency Financial Report: fedcure.org/information/DOJ-OIG_Challenges2013.shtml New GAO-14-121 Report: According to BOP officials, BOP’s biggest challenges are managing the continually increasing federal inmate population while providing for inmates’ care and safety, as well as the safety of BOP staff and surrounding communities, within budgeted levels. BOP officials project continuing inmate population growth and estimate increases in funding needs for the foreseeable future. Consultation with congressional decision makers could help BOP identify what additional information, if any, is needed, such as providing more comprehensive detailed information on projected costs using data already gathered by BOP. This could enhance the transparency of BOP’s budget justification and the President’s budget request and better inform congressional decision making. See: fedcure.org/documents/GAO-14-121-FBOP_BudgetTransparency_041213.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over-criminalization is an issue of liberty. As federal criminal laws and regulations have increased, so has the number of Americans who have found themselves breaking the law with no intent of doing so. Americans who make innocent mistakes should not be charged with criminal offenses. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) Over-Criminalization [bi-partisan] Task Force of 2013 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Majority of Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana In a major turnaround from past decades, a majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. Fifty-five percent of those questioned say marijuana should be made legal, with 44% disagreeing. According to the CNN poll and numbers from General Social Survey polling, support for legalizing marijuana has soared over the past quarter century, from 16% in 1987 to 26% in 1996, 34% in 2002, and 43% in 2012. There are big differences according to age, region, party ID, and gender, with senior citizens, Republicans and Southerners the only major demographic groups who still oppose the legal use of pot. The poll, conducted January 3 to 5, also indicates that the number of people who say that smoking pot is morally wrong has plunged. Follow complete coverage of the poll on AC 360 on CNN TV, CNN and CNN Mobile -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over 40,000 e-Certified signatories. Many kind thanks for your support. fedcure.org/documents/HR1475.shtml FedCURE/Amazon end of year FUNDRAISER! Free 2-Day shipping, No Minimum + 0ver 40,000 movies, Kindle books. NO RISK! fedcure.org/join.shtml {-|-} BARBER AMENDMENT IS CURE ~ Dangerously Over Crowded Federal Prison System {-|-} $1.2 billion Incarceration dollars shift to $1.2 billion Re-Entry dollars. “System-wide, the Bureau is operating at 36 percent over rated capacity and crowding is of special concern at higher security facilities, with 51 percent crowding at high security facilities and 45 percent at medium security facilities.” Charles E. Samuels, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons. Despite a ten year build out, spending over $1 billion dollars a year outsourcing prison cells from private prison contractors, increased double bunking and triple bunking, since 2003, the overcrowding rate hovers at 38% and FBOP forecasts 44%. The federal prison population was 165,000 in January 2003. November 2013, it is hovering at 219,200. America cannot build its way out of crowding. Private prisons bring in about $3 billion in revenue annually. Senate Committee Report says None of these efforts, however, have had a significant impact on prison overcrowding and says no more prisons. See: Senate Committee on Appropriations FY2014, Report No. 113-000, at pp. 90-91. BARBER AMENDMENT, on its own, or amended to: S.619 and H.R.1695 ~ the Justice Safety Valve Act, to H.R. 2371 ~ the Prisoner Incentive Act of 2013, or S.1410 - the Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013, increasing 54 to 128 days, retroactively, is CURE. $1.2 billion Incarceration dollars shift to $1.2 billion Re-Entry dollars, annually. “For every dollar we invest in programs like these we are going to save much more in prison costs, an outcome that will enable spending limited law-enforcement resources on other priorities. Attorney General, Eric Holder. New consideration should be given to the reinstatement of parole for federal offenders to help restore fairness in the criminal justice system and relieve overcrowding in the swelling federal prison system. The federal system, which holds about 220,000 inmates, is at least 40% over capacity, according to the Justice Department. Parole, which was abolished for federal offenders convicted after 1987 as part of tough anti-crime measures of the time, ought to be discussed. Attorney General, Eric Holder. View all Federal Crime and Law Enforcement legislation in the 113th Congress: miniurl/afMD Contact Congress fedcure.org/documents/HR1475.shtml fedcure.org/actionalert.shtml FedCURE on Twitter: fedcure.org/twitter.shtml (c) FedCURE.org 2014 Join or donate to FedCURE at: FedCURE.org/join.shtml Using Technology to Bring About Federal Criminal Justice Reform tm
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