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U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. has announced plans to do what many experts and commentators
have called for over many years: a new federal policy shift to reduce penalties for low-level, nonviolent offenders, and to end "mandatory minimum ' sentences for many drug offenders.
The announcement, made at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in San Francisco,
outlines a new federal strategy aimed primarily at turning around decades of explosive growth in the federal prison population.
California's severely over-populated state and federal prison population provides a prime example of the difficulties encountered with the established " lock'em up and throw away the key" policies and attitudes toward nonviolent drug offenders.
[www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/8-11-2013]
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