Sue Myrick: “I strongly support Aimee's Law. It just is something that makes common sense to provide incentives to States so that…”

“I strongly support Aimee's Law. It just is something that makes common sense to provide incentives to States so that they will make sure that violent criminals serve at least 85 percent of their original sentence. If criminals do get out early from prison and if they do go to another State to terrorize yet another community, then some of the funding from the first State should go and will be sent to the second State to cover the costs of locking up that criminal. It seems fair to me. More than 14,000 murder, rapes, and sexual assaults are committed each year by previously-committed murderers and sex offenders. In my community, that is one of the biggest concerns and complaints of the police is that they are constantly seeing the revolving door of locking up the same people over and over. One of eight of these 14,000 murders, rapes, and sexual assaults are committed in a second State. Each year 80 children are murdered, 1,300 are raped and 7,500 are sexually assaulted by these murderers, rapists, and child molesters. Mr. Speaker, we need to lock up these violent criminals who play the system. That is exactly what they do, they play the system because they know they can get away with it. They destroy our children's lives. I urge my colleagues to support Aimee's Law.”