Two cops killed in Hattiesburg

They're on the street because you can't impose life sentences for possession of stolen property and drug dealing.

 

How about gun charges?

And, while not knowing the details in this particular case, I'd settle for violent criminals, criminals who use guns in a crime, serving their entire sentence. Way too often, the guys that commit violent crime don't serve the time they are originally sentenced to.

 

Yes they do, because everyone knows what the "real" sentence is, including the law makers who write the guidelines with the notion of day-for-day or 85 percent credit in the background.

You can put over-incarceration in quotation marks all day and night. It doesn't make it any less true.

 

According to the story, they were arrested on gun charges before. Not clear if they were convicted.

Even still - those are not life sentence infractions. Sooner or later, the guys will be on the street.

 

I vote for later.

 

If they'd have been caught with crack instead of guns, chances are they'd still be locked up.

 

I think there is room for criminal justice reform. I also think we need to keep violent criminals off the streets for as long as possible.

 

1987 wants its talking point back, YF.

We do not under-incarcerate in America. We don't under-incarcerate violent criminals. We don't under-incarcerate any kind of criminal.

 

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and RFK, Jr., would disagree ...

 

If RFK Jr. is your moral compass, you're doing it wrong.

 

As has the majority of America, in the form of voting for legislatures that routinely double down on harsher sentences.

You're late to the party by a couple decades.