House Speaker Paul Ryan - Need To Take Action NOW!!
Update November 16, 2015
VERY IMPORTANT! PLEASE CALL & HAVE YOUR LOVED ONES CALL HOUSE SPEAKER PAUL RYAN'S OFFICE WITH THE TALKING POINTS BELOW.
PAUL RYAN'S CONTACT INFORMATION
Phone:
Wisconsin office: 262-637-0510 or 262-637-5689
Mailing Address:
Congressman Paul Ryan (WI-01)
1233 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-3031
Email:
His legislative aide,Will Miller: [email protected]
TALKING POINTS
Here are just a few bullet points for starting a conversation with House Speaker Paul Ryan, or his aides:
**Starting Point**
**What's Needed Now**
- Ryan needs to use his influence to help move the SAFE Act through the House Judiciary Committee, where Goodlatte presides.
- Delivering the SAFE Act to the House floor would allow for a robust debate concerning the merits of each bill (SAFE vs SRCA) in a "side-by-side comparison."
- Once members of the House are motivated to look more closely at both bills it will QUICKLY become obvious which bill is the more fiscally conservative, "smart on crime," solution.
- The passage of the SAFE Act will give his party the "Big Win" they need to build considerable momentum going into the 2016 elections.
**What's At Stake**
**Who is going to benefit from the SRCA?**
**What's Next???**
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VERY IMPORTANT! PLEASE CALL & HAVE YOUR LOVED ONES CALL HOUSE SPEAKER PAUL RYAN'S OFFICE WITH THE TALKING POINTS BELOW.
PAUL RYAN'S CONTACT INFORMATION
Phone:
Wisconsin office: 262-637-0510 or 262-637-5689
Mailing Address:
Congressman Paul Ryan (WI-01)
1233 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
202-225-3031
Email:
His legislative aide,Will Miller: [email protected]
TALKING POINTS
Here are just a few bullet points for starting a conversation with House Speaker Paul Ryan, or his aides:
**Starting Point**
- As the new Speaker of the House Ryan holds considerable influence and has a great responsibility to his party.
- Ryan has the ability to swing the 2016 presidential election in his party's favor, regardless of the candidate, IF he can build momentum. Currently there's gridlock.
- Ryan is a "fiscal conservative" who keeps his eye on the bottom line.
- He is keen on assessing the research findings and utilizing evidence-based strategies to achieve sustainable solutions.
- Criminal Justice System Reform, conceptually, has wide-spread, bi-partisan support in both the House and Senate, making it the ideal "momentum building initiative" his party needs moving into an election year.
- The SAFE Act already has a great deal of bi-partisan support in the House; It's a SMART means of dramatically reducing the FBOP's 7 Billion dollar a year budget WITHOUT jeopardizing public safety.
- The SAFE Act is contains comprehensive reform measures at EVERY LEVEL of the CJS based on an 18 month study assessing evidence based initiatives that have been successfully implemented in various state systems in recent years.
- Although the SRCA (Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act) is popular right now that is ONLY because Rep's feel like it's "better than nothing."
**What's Needed Now**
- Ryan needs to use his influence to help move the SAFE Act through the House Judiciary Committee, where Goodlatte presides.
- Delivering the SAFE Act to the House floor would allow for a robust debate concerning the merits of each bill (SAFE vs SRCA) in a "side-by-side comparison."
- Once members of the House are motivated to look more closely at both bills it will QUICKLY become obvious which bill is the more fiscally conservative, "smart on crime," solution.
- The passage of the SAFE Act will give his party the "Big Win" they need to build considerable momentum going into the 2016 elections.
**What's At Stake**
- President Bill Clinton and members of his administration STILL lament aspects of his Anti-Crime bill (over 20 years later) which killed the Pell Grants for prisoners and created the "gate keeping clause" under the AEDPA which has been used to effectively bar prisoner's access to federal courts..
- Clinton has stated on numerous occasions that he wished he was able to un-do the "unintended consequences" of his reform measures.
- Clinton MEANT to improve access to the courts but he effectively barred access
- Clinton eliminated the ONLY evidence-based means of substantially reducing the recidivism rate when he killed the Pell Grants
- Clinton has stated on numerous occasions that he wished there was a way to un-do the "unintended consequences" of his "well-intentioned reform measures."
- Good Intentions are not enough. No is settling for "good enough" when it comes to a once in a lifetime opportunity to enact meaningful sentencing reform legislation.
- If the SRCA is enacted instead of the SAFE Act, we'll be stuck with it for the next 20+ years, just like Clinton's Anti-Crime Bill.
- The SRCA has plenty of "unintended consequences" that will EXPAND mandatory minimums and do little to reduce the cost of incarceration or rate of recidivism.
**Who is going to benefit from the SRCA?**
- Not those of us suffering actual injustice under unduly harsh man min laws. Not the tax-paying citizens who funded rise of mass incarceration in this country, and who will CONTINUE to foot the bill under the SRCA. And definitely Not the Republican Party because we will make SURE the taxpayers know their "conservative Rep's" sold them out for something they felt was "good enough" for their supporters.
- The person who appears to benefit THE MOST from the passage of this bill is Senator Grassley, but the real question is how? Has anyone "followed the money" and attempted to discern where his invested interests might be? I'm betting you'll find a direct link to some aspect of the prison industrial complex...clearly a "conflict of interest" despite being perfectly legal under current Congressional investment laws for all Reps. If anyone can find the connection, we may be able to move him OFF this issue and out of our path.
**What's Next???**
- Time for you to pick up the phone and get to work on Ryan and your local Reps. Good Luck! Our fate lies in our own hands.
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Support Amending The Unjust 924(c) "Stacking" laws
UPDATE: October 24, 2015
We Need You To Act NOW!
Say "YES" to the SAFE Act (H.R. 2944)
- Up to 174 days total earned good time credit per year
- Four different programs to reduce sentences by ONE YEAR
- Retroactive Reductions to many Mandatory Minimum Sentences
- Success Oriented Funding to initiatives proven to reduce recidivism
- Annual review by US Attorney General to defund initiatives that do NOT reduce recidivism
Say "NO" to the SRCA
"Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act"
- Minimal earned good time credit available, and "only to those who qualify"
- No One Year Reductions, or expansion of institutional reentry programming for qualification
- Most reductions and GTC available ONLY to low-level, non-violent, first time offenders
- EXPANSION of many Mandatory Minimum Sentences under commonly charged criminal statutes
- Will only affect, approximately, 1/3 as many inmates and their families as the SAFE Act
**Have ALL of your family members and friends email, call, and visit their Congressmen and Senators to express their support of the SAFE Act. Do It TODAY!!!
Please contact us with any questions. Thank you for your continued effort to ensure justice is served and our loved ones are brought home.
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UPDATE: May, 2015
Petition To Congress
Dear Supporters,
This petition asks for your support as we advocate for Congress to amend the U.S. criminal justice system's most heinous policy.
This policy, 924(c), is a firearm enhancement provision that permits "stacking" 25 yr prison terms upon individuals who have committed multiple offenses that were charged in the same indictment and prosecuted together in one proceeding. This policy has led to approximately three thousand people receiving sentences that do not come close to fitting the crimes they've committed. The legislative history of 924(c) clearly reveals that it was created to impose a harsher penalty upon those who are RECIDIVIST and or REPEAT OFFENDERS of this policy, not FIRST TIME OFFENDERS.
924(c)'s "stacking" provision has been scrutinized and criticized by the vast majority of individuals who are aware of its heinous nature.
On numerous occasions the Judicial Conference Committee has urged Congress to amend the, "draconian penalties established by section 924(c) by making it a TRUE RECIDIVIST statute, if not rescinding it altogether."
Two members of Congress, (Representatives Robert Scott-VA 3rd and John Conyers-MI 14th), have, in two separate congressional terms, submitted legislative bills seeking to amend this policy's severe sentencing structure. Bill's H.R. 2933 and 2398-(The Firearm Recidivist Sentencing Act of 2009 and 2011, respectively) were drafted to ensure that, "the 25 yr mandatory minimum for REPEAT OFFENDERS apply only to individuals if they have been PREVIOUS CONVICTED of and SERVED a PRISON SENTENCE for a 924(c) offense."
Even Congress' own expert advisors-The United States Sentencing Commission, has repeatedly urged Congress to, "eliminate mandatory "stacking" of penalties under 924(c)." The Commission has repeatedly recommended that, "these extra 25 yr mandatory minimum sentences for RECIDIVISM apply only to defendants with a PRIOR 924(c) violation."
924(c) was created in 1968, making its life span 46 yrs and counting. This policy was proposed, voted on, and passed in one day. One day! It has taken 46 yrs to fix a one day problem. The time is now to correct the inhumane and grossly disproportionate penalties resulting from 924(c)'s "stacking" provision. We the people bear the responsibility of seeing that Congress correct this injustice.
By signing this petition your voice and vote sends the message that you favor and support the amending of 924(c)'s "stacking" provision and retroactive application of this amendment.
We thank you for your love/support and pray that you will encourage others to sign this petition and join us in our fight for justice, equality, and the restoration of human lives.
We Need You To Act NOW!
Say "YES" to the SAFE Act (H.R. 2944)
- Up to 174 days total earned good time credit per year
- Four different programs to reduce sentences by ONE YEAR
- Retroactive Reductions to many Mandatory Minimum Sentences
- Success Oriented Funding to initiatives proven to reduce recidivism
- Annual review by US Attorney General to defund initiatives that do NOT reduce recidivism
Say "NO" to the SRCA
"Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act"
- Minimal earned good time credit available, and "only to those who qualify"
- No One Year Reductions, or expansion of institutional reentry programming for qualification
- Most reductions and GTC available ONLY to low-level, non-violent, first time offenders
- EXPANSION of many Mandatory Minimum Sentences under commonly charged criminal statutes
- Will only affect, approximately, 1/3 as many inmates and their families as the SAFE Act
**Have ALL of your family members and friends email, call, and visit their Congressmen and Senators to express their support of the SAFE Act. Do It TODAY!!!
Please contact us with any questions. Thank you for your continued effort to ensure justice is served and our loved ones are brought home.
******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
UPDATE: May, 2015
Petition To Congress
Dear Supporters,
This petition asks for your support as we advocate for Congress to amend the U.S. criminal justice system's most heinous policy.
This policy, 924(c), is a firearm enhancement provision that permits "stacking" 25 yr prison terms upon individuals who have committed multiple offenses that were charged in the same indictment and prosecuted together in one proceeding. This policy has led to approximately three thousand people receiving sentences that do not come close to fitting the crimes they've committed. The legislative history of 924(c) clearly reveals that it was created to impose a harsher penalty upon those who are RECIDIVIST and or REPEAT OFFENDERS of this policy, not FIRST TIME OFFENDERS.
924(c)'s "stacking" provision has been scrutinized and criticized by the vast majority of individuals who are aware of its heinous nature.
On numerous occasions the Judicial Conference Committee has urged Congress to amend the, "draconian penalties established by section 924(c) by making it a TRUE RECIDIVIST statute, if not rescinding it altogether."
Two members of Congress, (Representatives Robert Scott-VA 3rd and John Conyers-MI 14th), have, in two separate congressional terms, submitted legislative bills seeking to amend this policy's severe sentencing structure. Bill's H.R. 2933 and 2398-(The Firearm Recidivist Sentencing Act of 2009 and 2011, respectively) were drafted to ensure that, "the 25 yr mandatory minimum for REPEAT OFFENDERS apply only to individuals if they have been PREVIOUS CONVICTED of and SERVED a PRISON SENTENCE for a 924(c) offense."
Even Congress' own expert advisors-The United States Sentencing Commission, has repeatedly urged Congress to, "eliminate mandatory "stacking" of penalties under 924(c)." The Commission has repeatedly recommended that, "these extra 25 yr mandatory minimum sentences for RECIDIVISM apply only to defendants with a PRIOR 924(c) violation."
924(c) was created in 1968, making its life span 46 yrs and counting. This policy was proposed, voted on, and passed in one day. One day! It has taken 46 yrs to fix a one day problem. The time is now to correct the inhumane and grossly disproportionate penalties resulting from 924(c)'s "stacking" provision. We the people bear the responsibility of seeing that Congress correct this injustice.
By signing this petition your voice and vote sends the message that you favor and support the amending of 924(c)'s "stacking" provision and retroactive application of this amendment.
We thank you for your love/support and pray that you will encourage others to sign this petition and join us in our fight for justice, equality, and the restoration of human lives.
