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Why Obama's Regulators Let Wall Street Bankers Off Easy
Remember when the economy collapsed because some people were criminally negligent and nobody went to prison?
Is Obama About to Reschedule Weed? Does It Even Matter?
Probably not, and it won't fix our stupid drug laws even if he does.
The Slain TSA Officer’s Funeral Felt Like a Lament for the War on Terror
Gerardo Hernandez was memorialized yesterday, and Attorney General Eric Holder came to pay his respects to the TSA agent who lost his life in the LAX shooting. Holder also found the time to dig up some old Bush-era rhetoric that might not have been...
The Future of American Prisons Is Old People
Orange might be the new black, but prisoners are getting increasingly gray.
Eric Holder Speaks Out Against Mandatory Minimums, Gives Us a Sliver of Hope
Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder announced that his office wouldn't be seeking mandatory minimums when it came to low-level drug offenders. It's a baby step on the long, long road to reducing the US's prison population.
So You Want to Abolish Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Small-Time Drug Dealers
It's a tall order, and probably high time. Attorney General Eric Holder sure thinks so, and plans to overhaul Justice Department policy to spare petty, non-violent drug offenders of lengthy mandatory minimum sentences. But a plan is just that: a plan...
So You Want to Abolish Mandatory Minimums for Small-Time Drug Dealers
So does Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced today his plans to overhaul Justice Department policy to spare petty and peaceable drug offenders of lengthy mandatory-minimum sentences.