I'm glad Hillary has changed her mind about sentences and prison.

[L0oniX]

"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."

“We need more police,” she said in a 1994 speech. “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.” The Clinton administration gave us all that and more, bragging about building more prisons, locking up more people (including nonviolent offenders) for longer stretches, opposing parole, expanding the death penalty, putting more cops on the street, and implementing a “comprehensive anti-drug strategy.”

In a 2001 report, the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) noted that Bill Clinton “stole the ‘get tough on crime’ show” from Republicans by “consistently support increased penalties and additional prison construction.” The highlight of his efforts was the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which subsidized cops and prisons, restricted gun ownership, expanded the use of the death penalty, created new mandatory minimum sentences, and added to the list of federal crimes, which were already too numerous to count. Looking at the results of the crackdown that Clinton led at the federal level and encouraged at the state level, JPI dubbed him “the incarceration president.” The total prison population grew by 673,000 during Clinton’s eight years in office, compared to 448,000 during Ronald Reagan’s two terms. The number of federal prisoners doubled under Clinton, rising more than it did during the previous 12 years under his two Republican predecessors...

...As Dara Lind notes at Vox, Clinton nevertheless attacked her rival Barack Obama as soft on crime because he thought some of those penalties were too harsh. A month after Clinton decried “an unacceptable increase in incarceration,” her campaign tried to undermine Obama by citing his criticism of mandatory minimums.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2015/04/30/why-hillary-clinton-lacks-credibility-on-criminal-justice-reform/

Like I've said ...I glad she has changed her mind.

IMO ...It's good when people realize when they've been wrong ...and make corrections to what they say. I know ...I know ...1994 was a long time ago.

Here's more to back it up...

http://www.newsweek.com/hillarys-take-law-and-order-chapter-and-verse-330084

<snip>The White House

1994: As first lady, her days of defending those accused of rape and murder now long behind her, Clinton actively lobbies for passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.

Women in Policing Awards, August 10, 1994: “There is something wrong when a crime bill takes six years to work its way through Congress and the average criminal serves only four…. We need more police. We need more and tougher prison sentences for repeat offenders. We need more prisons to keep violent offenders for as long as it takes to keep them off the streets…. We will be able to say, loudly and clearly, that for repeat, violent, criminal offenders, three strikes and you’re out. We are tired of putting you back in through the revolving door.”

[JaneyVee]

1. You'll never guess who voted yes on that veto-proof crime bill?

[bigtree]

10. does it rhyme with fern?

H.R. 3355 (103rd): Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

Aye I Sanders, Bernie
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/103-1994/h416

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. I'm glad Hillary changed her mind too. My hat's off to her pollsters; they're doing their job well.

[Wilms]

3. Indeed. And hope the wind keeps blowing in this direction. n/t

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. I think it will. One thing about Hillary we can all agree on, she's VERY smart, and will adapt her positions as need be to "conditions on the ground."

[betterdemsonly]

4. Bernie wasn't governing the executive branch when black incarcerations rates skyrocketed.

Her record on race is by far the most questionable, but I expect black lives matter will point this out at some point.

[Cheese Sandwich]

5. You must mean "evolving"

Changing your mind is for mortals. Heroes evolve.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. But will she change it back again?

She seems to just be doing what is best for her politically (again).

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. It's the smart thing to do if the positions Hillary holds are contrary to popular progressive views.

[AgingAmerican]

9. Probably if elected, yes