US Attorney General Set to Announce End to Mandatory Minimum Sentences for...
Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the nation’s criminal justice system. US Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce sweeping changes to federal drug enforcement and...
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Wednesday, the world’s largest association for correctional officers became the latest unlikely proponent of criminal justice reform. — This post originally appeared at ThinkProgress By Nicole Flatow...
View ArticleHow A Little-Known Agency Is Taking Crucial Steps To Reduce Drug Sentences
The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to consider its own major reform to its guidelines. — This post originally appeared at ThinkProgress By Nicole Flatow Continuing the burst...
View ArticleThe Sweeping Presidential Power to Help Prisoners That Holder Didn’t Mention
— By Cora Currier, ProPublica This week, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out against the impacts of “draconian” sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. “Too many Americans go to too many prisons...
View ArticleLock-Up Quotas are Real
Excessive sentences, aka “bonus justice” is the rich soil in which for-profit detention has taken root. — In hopes of extending this infographic’s reach (Huffington Post’s smart use of BJS data) I now...
View ArticleUS Attorney General: Reform to Mandatory Minimum Sentences Will Apply to...
For those who have been charged with a crime but not yet been convicted or pleaded guilty, US Attorney General Eric Holder asked prosecutors to revoke a charge that carries a mandatory minimum...
View ArticleNEW REPORT: One In Nine U.S. Prisoners Are Serving Life Sentences
The report comes as Congress, the Department of Justice and others consider rolling back harsh statutory minimum punishments that have filled federal prisons, acknowledging that harsh prison sentences...
View ArticleWhy Go Easy on Junkies?
Reforming mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenders. — This post originally appeared at Where Excuses Go to Die A: Mandatory minimum sentencing reform for nonviolent drug offenders is...
View ArticleALEC Doubles Down on its Support For ‘Less Draconian’ Prison Sentences
On Friday, ALEC came forward with its support for shorter prison sentences for low-level offenders, likely hoping to change its image. — This post originally appeared at ThinkProgress By Nicole Flatow...
View ArticleVermont Chief Judge: The Criminal Justice System Can’t Solve the Drug Problem
Vermont Chief Justice Paul Reiber has become vocal in his opposition to the War on Drugs. He said, “This is happening in numbers that’s alarming to me, and I think I have an obligation to defend the...
View ArticleObama Challenges Mandatory Minimum Sentences, Pardons 8 Nonviolent Drug...
President Obama said that each of the eight men and women were sentenced under an unfair system that included unjust mandatory sentencing. — About a year ago President Obama, in an interview with Time...
View ArticleJustice Department Aims to Cut Short Racially Biased Drug Sentences
In December, President Obama used his presidential pardon power to shorten the discriminatory sentences of 8 drug offenders. On Thursday, the Justice Department said they want to commute a lot more. —...
View ArticleEnd the War… On Drugs
The War on Drugs is nothing but a legal restructuring of Jim Crow, a far-reaching injustice inflicted on People of Color. ––– “Weldon Angelos will spend the rest of his life in prison for three...
View ArticleUS Attorney General Set to Announce End to Mandatory Minimum Sentences for...
Attorney General Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the nation’s criminal justice system. US Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce sweeping changes to federal drug enforcement and...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Correctional Association Now Calls for Elimination of...
Wednesday, the world’s largest association for correctional officers became the latest unlikely proponent of criminal justice reform. — This post originally appeared at ThinkProgress By Nicole Flatow...
View ArticleHow A Little-Known Agency Is Taking Crucial Steps To Reduce Drug Sentences
The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously on Thursday to consider its own major reform to its guidelines. — This post originally appeared at ThinkProgress By Nicole Flatow Continuing the burst...
View ArticleThe Sweeping Presidential Power to Help Prisoners That Holder Didn’t Mention
— By Cora Currier, ProPublica This week, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out against the impacts of “draconian” sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. “Too many Americans go to too many prisons...
View ArticleLock-Up Quotas are Real
Excessive sentences, aka “bonus justice” is the rich soil in which for-profit detention has taken root. — In hopes of extending this infographic’s reach (Huffington Post’s smart use of BJS data) I now...
View ArticleUS Attorney General: Reform to Mandatory Minimum Sentences Will Apply to...
For those who have been charged with a crime but not yet been convicted or pleaded guilty, US Attorney General Eric Holder asked prosecutors to revoke a charge that carries a mandatory minimum...
View ArticleNEW REPORT: One In Nine U.S. Prisoners Are Serving Life Sentences
The report comes as Congress, the Department of Justice and others consider rolling back harsh statutory minimum punishments that have filled federal prisons, acknowledging that harsh prison sentences...
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