Another Sad Old White Man Ruins Everything For Everyone
Another Sad Old White Man Ruins Everything For Everyone
05/12/2017 03:48 pm ET | Updated 2 days ago - By Sarah Beauchamp, Contributor
In a memo yesterday, Attorney General and demonic Keebler Elf Jeff Sessions moved to lengthen drug sentences, rolling back a core element of the Obama administration’s criminal justice reform, which allowed prosecutors to avoid harsh mandatory minimum sentencing—five years to life in prison—for low-level drug offenses, like possession of marijuana. Basically, if you’re caught with a drug that makes everyone very calm and hungry, you don’t have to die behind bars with murderers!
According to a 2013 directive from former Attorney General Eric Holder, federal prosecutors should not specify the amount of drugs involved in non-violent cases, in order to set sentences lower than the mandatory minimums. Sessions’ new directive states that the Justice Department will return to the previous policy of filing the most serious charge available against the defendant.
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05/12/2017 03:48 pm ET | Updated 2 days ago - By Sarah Beauchamp, Contributor
In a memo yesterday, Attorney General and demonic Keebler Elf Jeff Sessions moved to lengthen drug sentences, rolling back a core element of the Obama administration’s criminal justice reform, which allowed prosecutors to avoid harsh mandatory minimum sentencing—five years to life in prison—for low-level drug offenses, like possession of marijuana. Basically, if you’re caught with a drug that makes everyone very calm and hungry, you don’t have to die behind bars with murderers!
According to a 2013 directive from former Attorney General Eric Holder, federal prosecutors should not specify the amount of drugs involved in non-violent cases, in order to set sentences lower than the mandatory minimums. Sessions’ new directive states that the Justice Department will return to the previous policy of filing the most serious charge available against the defendant.
READ MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anothe...
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