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Jeff Sessions Reboots the Drug War

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

takyon writes:

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: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @05:06AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @05:06AM (#510398)

    poor, stupid, crime-rampant minorities are no longer getting favorable treatment from the Federal Government

    Rednecks are a minority as well.
    What, you thought poor white people aren't going to get fucked by this too?
    American white supremacy is just as much about keeping poor white people down as it is about keeping non-whites down.
    In American white supremacy is only for helping rich whites. For poor whites, its just a distraction so they won't notice the boot on their neck.
    Congratulations, you wear it well!

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday May 16 2017, @05:02PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 16 2017, @05:02PM (#510593) Journal

    It is not about only helping rich whites. That is an unfair generalization.

    It is about helping rich, white, christian, heterosexual, obese, elderly males.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @07:28PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @07:28PM (#510687)

      As long as I stay atheist I will be a member of a protected minority!

      • (Score: 2, Informative) by Demena on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:02AM

        by Demena (5637) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:02AM (#510854)
        No. As long as you are an atheist you will remain a member of an unprotected minority.