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This is a big move by CA. Back in the '90s, as a deputy public defender in San Diego, a lot of my clients were housed in privately-run jails. CA had passed its 3-strikes rule, and we had clients getting sentenced to life in prison for petty theft w/ priors.
Let me say that again: I had clients who were homeless and hungry, and facing the possibility of spending the rest of their lives in prison for stealing lunchmeat from a grocery store. All because they had prior convictions.
Tbh, I don't think I realized then the ways that for-profit enterprise could create perverse incentives in the criminal justice system. I just saw the heartbreaking human cost. So many aspects of criminal justice reform are long overdue. Glad to see progress being made.
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Maybe. But, eventho the IC plays a key role in collecting intel re foreign threats to US elections, election security isn't one of the DNI's core responsibilities - that falls to DHS, FBI, and the states. Under EO 12333, the IC's core responsibilities are intel, and counterintel.
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Reminder that today is the deadline for ODNI to respond to a HPSCI subpoena to turn over info required by law re IC IG findings about an urgent IC whistleblower complaint.

It can't be said too often that continued credibility of US IC and its oversight framework are at stake.
If you haven't been following this issue, HPCSI states that the IC Inspector General received an urgent, credible whistleblower complaint. By law, the DNI must convey that to Congress. HPSCI says ODNI has declined to do that, and improperly consulted with DoJ and perhaps the WH.
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