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13 Aug 2013, 12:44 pm by Ken White
Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the United States Department of Justice would no longer seek lengthy mandatory minimum sentences in some federal drug prosecutions. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 12:05 pm by David Oscar Markus
Eric Holder's speech was quite a doozy and is a breath of fresh air for the draconian sentences that have been doled out over the past 20 years.Even though law enforcement is complaining that their snitches won't be as motivated under the new policy, the real question is whether the actual policy goes far enough. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 4:30 am by Embajador Microjuris al Día
Eric Holder anunció nueva política enmarcada en la estrategia de reducir la población carcelaria Traficantes que no pertenezcan a cárteles de drogas podrán tener penas menores El Fiscal General de los Estados Unidos, Eric Holder, anunció un cambio radical en la estrategia que actualmente se emplea en la lucha antidroga de ese país, por medio de una reforma en el sistema judicial. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 8:25 pm by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) In my last post, I gave a preliminary assessment of Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent speech on reforming charging policy for low-level drug offenders. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 3:45 pm by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) In a speech to the American Bar Association today, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a potentially important new change in Justice Department policy on charging drug offenders. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 2:10 pm by Joe Patrice
[NBC News] * Eric Holder announced that the federal government will stop charging certain drug offenders with crimes that carry draconian mandatory minimum sentences. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 1:54 pm
I held up on blogging the advance publicity on the speech because I wanted to see the text, which is now available here. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 11:10 am by Rekha Arulanantham
Attorney General Eric Holder just called mass incarceration a moral and economic failure. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 8:30 am
Eric Holder Walks Back The War On Drugs Today, as has been widely reported, Eric Holder will announce that "widespread incarceration at the federal, state and local levels is both ineffective and unsustainable." [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 7:25 am by Jeralyn
Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a sea change in policy at the Justice Department this morning in his speech to the American Bar Association in San Francisco. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 7:00 am by Rumpole
 AG Holder to announce new  policy to reduce federal drug incarcerations:The NY Times reports here that today Attorney General Eric Holder will announce at the ABA annual meeting in San Francisco (something, strangely, we've never been invited to) a major shift in DOJ policy on drug prosecutions: Prosecutors will no longer list the amount of drugs in an indictment, giving them and the court the ability to sidestep minimum mandatory sentences. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 4:30 am by David Oscar Markus
Eric Holder is announcing a new policy on drug cases to ease some of the crazy high sentences in drug cases:Mr. [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 1:16 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Other Interesting Items from the Past Week Attorney General Eric Holder came out and said it: "I think there are too many people in jail for too long, and for not necessarily good reasons." [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 9:58 am by Dan Filler
 Eric Holder is right to focus on the mass incarceration attending the War on Drugs. [read post]