Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy
Source: Washington Post
Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.
The Holder memo, issued in August 2013, instructed his prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants with drug offenses that would trigger long mandatory minimum sentences. Defendants who met a set of criteria such as not belonging to a large-scale drug trafficking organization, gang or cartel, qualified for lesser charges and in turn less prison time under Holders policy.
But Sessionss new charging policy, outlined in a two-page memo and sent to more than 5,000 assistant U.S. attorneys across the country and all assistant attorneys general in Washington, orders prosecutors to charge and purse the most serious, readily provable offense and rescinds Holders policy immediately.
The Sessions memo marks the first significant criminal justice effort by the Trump administration to bring back the toughest practices of the drug war, which had fallen out of favor in recent years with a bipartisan movement to undo the damaging effects of mass incarceration.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-issues-sweeping-new-criminal-charging-policy/2017/05/11/4752bd42-3697-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)and a few other states?
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)even local jails are expanding beds and going private.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Damon Hinninger, CEO of a prison firm, stands to make money from incarcerating more people.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)babylonsister
(171,104 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,060 posts)not fooled
(5,803 posts)slave prison labor for corporations.
enough
(13,266 posts)riversedge
(70,381 posts)It would take a miracle a bit miracle.
orangecrush
(19,655 posts)He shares a cell with 45 very soon.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,420 posts)unequal or varying application of the laws has got to be frustrating
first one way, then another
this is all about control and fear
Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)No doubt, only applies to those states that voted for Hillary and the minorities in the states that voted for Trump.
Ligyron
(7,640 posts)but in some areas, fat chance of that happening.
I really thought this country was on the right track and then Hills lost the election...
cannabis_flower
(3,768 posts)The election was stolen.
Ligyron
(7,640 posts)Absolutely.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)The drug war is something that was a waste of time, money and lives.
Making drugs legal would put an end to most cartels. But then the prison corporations (which how is that even a thing in the "land of the free" would lose money.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)cash. IMO, within a year jail/prison/ populations will double or triple. Some people will wait years in jail for a trial.
Undocumented persons will wait years in the new detention camps- if they want to see an immigration Judge.
yardwork
(61,736 posts)Norbert9
(494 posts)dalton99a
(81,656 posts)The Wizard
(12,552 posts)hiding in the Trump White House.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Sessions ". . . directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties."
So this means Trump will be charged with treason????
UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)Plus lying under oath.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)You ain't takin' me alive copper!!
This can only escalate into urban warfare.
ProfessorGAC
(65,318 posts)That little troll is a serious punk with a world class Napoleon complex. He needs to recuse himself from any public life. Just stay home and dream about the antebellum south Li'l Jeffy.
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)"millionaire" - politician type crimes?
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)They_Live
(3,242 posts)is what I've noticed. If there is a jury involved, anyway.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)get out of jail.
barbtries
(28,816 posts)with no morals or ethics whatsoever. he is unfit for his position. slime.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Knr
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)malthaussen
(17,219 posts)Ah, that some future AG would prosecute him for perjury.
-- Mal
JudyM
(29,294 posts)dhill926
(16,377 posts)pot smoking rednecks....
Solly Mack
(90,795 posts)There are a lot of damaged people in the GOP.
chowder66
(9,093 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)lark
(23,182 posts)He's every bit as vile, traitorous, racist, greedy and a killer to the working class as the orange assface.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,356 posts)OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)qwlauren35
(6,150 posts)are not high percentage voters. They won't be highly educated. They won't be well off. They'll be the kind of people who have difficulty making bail. The kind of people who can't afford a lawyer. Possibly the kind of people who believed they wouldn't get caught (dumb...).
The kind of people that only the ACLU tends to try to protect.
This is going to be bad.
burrowowl
(17,653 posts)and put in jail for a long, long time!
Who is paying him, private prison lobbyists?