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posted by on Tuesday May 16 2017, @04:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the guilty dept.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday that he has directed his federal prosecutors to pursue the most severe penalties possible, including mandatory minimum sentences, in his first step toward a return to the war on drugs of the 1980s and 1990s that resulted in long sentences for many minority defendants and packed U.S. prisons.

[...] In the later years of the Obama administration, a bipartisan consensus emerged on Capitol Hill for sentencing reform legislation, which Sessions opposed and successfully worked to derail.

In a two-page memo to federal prosecutors across the country, Sessions overturned former attorney general Eric H. Holder's sweeping criminal charging policy that instructed his prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants with offenses that would trigger long mandatory minimum sentences. In its place, Sessions told his more than 5,000 assistant U.S. attorneys to charge defendants with the most serious crimes, carrying the toughest penalties.

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Memorandum on Department Charging and Sentencing Policy - US Department of Justice PDF


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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @01:22PM (#510515)

    They're trying to build a prison
    They're trying to build a prison

    Following the rights movement
    You clamped on with your iron fists
    Drugs became conveniently
    Available for all the kids

    Following the rights movement
    You clamped on with your iron fists
    Drugs became conveniently
    Available for all the kids

    I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch right here in Hollywood
    (nearly 2 million Americans are incarcerated in the prison system, prison system of the US)
    (They're trying to build a prison)

    They're trying to build a prison
    They're trying to build a prison
    They're trying to build a prison
    (for you and me to live in)
    Another prison system
    Another prison system
    Another prison system
    (for you and me)

    Minor drug offenders fill your prisons you don't even flinch
    All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich
    Minor drug offenders fill your prisons you don't even flinch
    All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich

    I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch right here in Hollywood
    (the percentage of Americans in the prison system, prison system, has doubled since 1985)
    (They're trying to build a prison)

    They're trying to build a prison
    They're trying to build a prison
    They're trying to build a prison
    (for you and me to live in)
    Another prison system
    Another prison system
    Another prison system
    For you and I, for you and I, for you and I.

    They're trying to build a prison
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    They're trying to build a prison for you and me

    Oh, baby, you and me.

    All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased
    And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences
    All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased
    And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences

    Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
    Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe

    I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch right here in Hollywood
    Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world
    (They're trying to build a prison)

    They're trying to build a prison
    They're trying to build a prison
    They're trying to build a prison
    (for you and me to live in)
    Another prison system
    Another prison system
    Another prison system
    (for you and me)

    For you and I, for you and I, for you and I, for you and I

    They're trying to build a prison
    They're trying to build a prison
    They're trying to build a prison for you and me

    Oh, baby, you and me~

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