{"id":14397,"date":"2024-03-17T07:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T01:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/kamala-harris-says-no-one-should-have-to-go-to-jail-for-smoking-weed\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T07:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T01:32:49","slug":"kamala-harris-says-no-one-should-have-to-go-to-jail-for-smoking-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/kamala-harris-says-no-one-should-have-to-go-to-jail-for-smoking-weed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Says &#8216;No One Should Have to Go to Jail for Smoking Weed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris met with rapper Fat Joe and others pardoned for marijuana convictions on Friday, claiming no one should have to serve time for such offenses. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should have to go to jail for smoking weed,\u201d Harris said to the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2024\/03\/kamala-harris-says-no-one-should-have-go\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=kamala-harris-says-no-one-should-have-go\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>, Harris oversaw more than\u00a01,900 cannabis related convictions\u00a0in San Francisco during her time as a prosecutor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdered to reduce the population of California\u2019s overcrowded prisons, lawyers from then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris\u2019 office made the case that some non-violent offenders needed to stay incarcerated or else the prison system would lose a source of cheap labor,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2011, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Plata that California\u2019s prisons were so overcrowded that they violated the Constitution\u2019s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Three years later, in early 2014, the state was ordered to allow non-violent, second time offenders who have served half of their sentence to be eligible for parole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtending 2-for-1 credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely impact fire camp participation\u2014a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought,\u201d lawyers for Harris wrote in the filing, noting that the fire camp program required physical fitness in addition to a level of clearance that allowed the felon to be offsite,\u201d the outlet continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only that,\u00a0they noted, draining the prisons of \u201cminimum custody inmates\u201d would deplete the labor force both internally and in local communities where low-level, non-violent offenders worked for pennies on the dollar collecting trash and tending to city parks. A federal three-judge panel ordered both sides to confer about the plaintiffs\u2019 demands, and the state agreed to extend the 2-for-1 credits to all eligible minimum security prisoners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                    <!--begin code --><\/p>\n<p>                    <!--end code --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/kamala-harris-says-no-one-should-have-to-go-to-jail-for-smoking-weed\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris met with rapper Fat Joe and others pardoned for marijuana convictions on Friday, claiming no one should have to serve time for such offenses. \u201cNo one should have to go to jail for smoking weed,\u201d Harris said to the crowd. 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