CNN and 'experts' say Keeping Violent Criminals In Jail won't make people safer
CNN has turned to its trusted “experts” to argue that keeping violent criminals in jail would not keep people safe from violent criminals.
This “news”
report comes in the aftermath of violent attacks in Memphis, Tennessee. According to CNN’s Emma Tucker, “the suspects in two violent attacks there this month had been released from prison before serving their full sentences for prior convictions.” Naturally, it follows that if they had remained in prison where they belonged, they would not have been on the street to commit the gruesome crimes that they committed.
Ah, but the “experts” see it differently!
“Experts told CNN research shows harsher penalties are not an effective deterrent to violent crime,” Tucker says. Evidently, this slogan about "deterrence" (which is a separate discussion from the confinement of violent offenders, by the way) means that we should let criminals out on the street sooner to commit more violent crimes. According to CNN and its chosen experts, we must give violent career criminals a “fair shake at life and fair rehabilitation.”
Now, let’s examine the two cases in Memphis that CNN is using to argue this point. The first is Cleotha Henderson, who has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher. Henderson had previously been
charged 17 times throughout his life, including charges for aggravated assault, unlawful possession, and rape. He was serving a 24-year sentence for aggravated kidnapping but was released in November 2020, four years early. Henderson has now been charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape, and first-degree murder (among other crimes) in the Fletcher case. He is also being separately
charged with aggravated kidnapping, rape, and unlawful possession of a weapon in circumstances
unrelated to Fletcher's death.
CNN and 'experts' say keeping violent criminals in jail won't make people safer
