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Restitution: A remedy for justice, or another form of prison

AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK

AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.7527 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Byrne Unscripted with Martha Byrne – Federal restitution and sentencing practices continue to raise concerns about fairness, accountability, and rehabilitation within the justice system. Critics argue that prosecutorial power, inconsistent sentencing, and lifelong financial penalties create lasting harm for defendants, fueling growing calls for criminal justice reform, transparency, and protection of constitutional rights...

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0:00.0

It is a an understatement to say that I have learned more in the last five and a half years about the justice system than the entire 50 years prior to that.

0:27.8

My only knowledge about law and order was through my husband and his work on the NYPD and the arrests that he made, the cases he was involved in, my husband arrested guilty

0:41.2

people, put guilty people in prison, took thousands of guns off the street, made New York a safer

0:47.6

place to live. That was my experience. When my husband was in a severe car accident due to a perpetrator running him off the road with 19 prior arrests.

1:03.7

And he received 43 years in prison for attempted murder.

1:08.7

That made sense to me.

1:11.1

He said he wanted to kill a cop.

1:13.0

He tried. He almost did.

1:15.6

Now, this was a long time ago. This was 2001 in February.

1:22.8

Because police officers were seen as not just human beings, you know, gasp, but necessary

1:31.6

commodities for our cities to keep us safe.

1:35.1

They were respected.

1:36.8

And as we know, it's gone down the drain in many cities across the country since the summer of love of 2020, which was all paid for,

1:48.3

as we know, and to destroy our country.

1:51.9

I hope more people are learning and understanding what's really going on here, and these

1:56.1

protests are paid, these people are paid, they know where the money's coming from.

2:00.4

God bless every single

2:02.0

independent journalist with a little fuzzy microphone and a phone exposing all of this. They've done

2:07.9

more for transparency than everybody, everybody, every law enforcement officers, because they don't,

2:17.4

law enforcement officers bring cases to don't, law enforcement officers bring

2:18.6

cases to their supervisors. If the supervisors don't want to prosecute or they don't want to bring

2:23.9

it to the DA or they don't want to touch it because it's political, it ends right there.

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