During her tenure as San Francisco District Attorney and later as California Attorney General, Kamala Harris oversaw over 1,900 marijuana-related convictions. Specifically, as District Attorney, her office won 1,956 misdemeanor and felony convictions for marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale.
Joe Biden was a U.S. Senator from Delaware. One significant piece of legislation associated with him is the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, commonly known as the 1994 Crime Bill. This bill included provisions that increased funding for law enforcement, expanded the death penalty, and implemented mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes.
The exact number of people incarcerated as a direct result of the 1994 Crime Bill is difficult to quantify because it involved multiple changes to federal and state laws, funding allocations, and various crime prevention strategies. However, it is widely acknowledged that the bill contributed to the significant increase in the U.S. prison population during the 1990s and 2000s.
Critics argue that the bill exacerbated mass incarceration, particularly affecting minority communities. It contributed to the three-strikes laws, which mandated life sentences for repeat offenders of serious crimes, and incentivized states to build more prisons and implement stricter sentencing laws through federal funding .
While the bill’s impact on incarceration rates is clear, precise numbers on how many people were jailed solely due to its provisions are not readily available due to the complexity of the legislation’s implementation across various jurisdictions.
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