Today, Attorney General Eric Holder addressed overcrowding in the prison system and called for substantial changes to our nation’s criminal justice system, including scaling back mandatory minimums and the use of harsh sentences for some drug-related crimes.
“It’s clear – as we come together today – that too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. It’s clear, at a basic level, that 20th-century criminal justice solutions are not adequate to overcome our 21st-century challenges,” Holder told the annual meeting of the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates in San Francisco. “And it is well past time to implement common sense changes that will foster safer communities from coast to coast.”
“We need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, deter and rehabilitate – not merely to convict, warehouse and forget,” Holder said.
See a bit of the Attorney General’s statement below…
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Source: HuffingtonPost
Video Source: NBCNews
