Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., revealed in a new interview, perhaps unwittingly, that she doesn’t necessarily support the details in a bill she endorsed last year that would abolish federal prisons over the course of 10 years, admitting that there are some people who legitimately belong behind bars.
During an interview Monday with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan, Tlaib was pressed on her support for the BREATHE Act, which calls for the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services to create a “roadmap for prison abolition,” including the “full decarceration of federal detention facilities within 10 years” and “a moratorium on all new federal prison, jail, immigrant and youth detention construction.”
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Reps. Rashida Tlaib (left) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrive for a briefing on Afghanistan at the Capitol on Aug. 24, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“To what extent have you wrestled with releasing any potential downsides of releasing into society every single person who currently in a federal prison?” Swan asked the congresswoman.
“Yeah, I think that everyone’s like, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to just release everybody,’” rashida-tlaib” target=”_blank”>Tlaib<, R-S.C., who fired off a tweet thread saying the congresswoman’s proposal is a more “radical” implementation of “Defund the Police.”
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“Oddly enough, Congresswoman Tlaib has had a tough time convincing Congress to follow her lead on emptying prisons,” the senator wrote. “However, the Taliban jumped all over this idea. When they took over Afghanistan first thing they did was empty all the prisons – including releasing terrorists.
“What could possibly go wrong?” he asked. “And why didn’t the media bring up this proposal during 2020 presidential campaign?”