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For nearly six years, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has been President Barack Obama’s legal pugilist, relentlessly fighting against racial inequality, defending the Voting Rights Act,…

On Friday, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to make newly instituted guidelines, which lowered prison sentences for most federal drug offensives retroactive in full to…

Why does momentum seem to be gaining for the decriminalization of marijuana use? As reported earlier on NewsOne, ten of 13 members of the D.C. City…

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 […]