Owen Hanson won national championships at USC. Then he fell into debt to a Mexican drug cartel, became their logistics coordinator, and landed a federal prison sentence of nearly two decades. Now free, Hanson says the First Step Act, the criminal justice reform law enacted during President Trump's first term in 2018, cut years off […] The post Former USC star turned cartel courier credits Trump's First Step Act with saving his life appeared first on American Almanac .
Owen Hanson won national championships at USC. Then he fell into debt to a Mexican drug cartel, became their logistics coordinator, and landed a federal prison sentence of nearly two decades. Now free, Hanson says the First Step Act, the criminal justice reform law enacted during President Trump's first term in 2018, cut years off his time behind bars and gave him a reason to turn his life around. Hanson, the real-life figure behind a docuseries that earned him the nickname "Cocaine Quarterback," told Fox News' Lara Trump on the July 11 edition of "My View" that the law did exactly what its authors intended: it rewarded inmates who chose rehabilitation over idleness. His account is a concrete case study in what conservative criminal…Open
From Bloodshed To Bukele: A Timeline Of El Salvador’s War, Gangs And Crackdown
Although it may now be leading the conversation in safety and law enforcement, El Salvador reached that point only after a decades-long crucible, often exchanging the tyranny of military dictators for the subjugation of street kingpins. While it is impossible to pinpoint what began the decades of bloodshed in El Salvador, there is little debate over what ended them: the decisive yet controversial crackdown by the country’s current president, Nayib Bukele. In fact, Bukele’s campaign proved so effective that — for the most part — the only criticism from his foreign opponents remains that he came down too hard on the gangs and failed to do enough to protect the rule of law for those accused. Despite this, Bukele maintains an…Open
From Bloodshed To Bukele: A Timeline Of El Salvador’s War, Gangs And Crackdown
Although it may now be leading the conversation in safety and law enforcement, El Salvador reached that point only after a decades-long crucible, often exchanging the tyranny of military dictators for the subjugation of street kingpins. While it is impossible to pinpoint what began the decades of bloodshed in El Salvador, there is little debate over what ended them: the decisive yet controversial crackdown by the country’s current president, Nayib Bukele. In fact, Bukele’s campaign proved so effective that — for the most part — the only criticism from his foreign opponents remains that he came down too hard on the gangs and failed to do enough to protect the rule of law for those accused. Despite this, Bukele maintains an…Open
"There is an America that is more free — where there's more equality, where there is more justice, where there is less bigotry — and I think it's waiting for us," says lawyer Bryan Stevenson.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.'/Open
