Sessions doubles down on the "war on drugs"

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Jeff Sessions Issues “Moral and Just” Policy Requiring Prosecutors to Seek the Harshest Sentence Possible

In a move that overturns a key Justice Department policy enacted by the Obama administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has directed federal prosecutors around the country always to be as harsh and punitive as the law allows when making charging decisions. In a policy memo issued Thursday, Sessions formally rescinded a pair of directives issued by Eric Holder, the former attorney general, that instructed prosecutors dealing with drug cases to consider whether the most severe punishment available was fair and proportional, and to consider not specifying the quantity of drugs at issue so as to avoid triggering mandatory minimum statutes.

Of course the main beneficiary of this new policy is the prison system, including the private prison industry.

WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday withdrew an Obama-era Justice Department memo that set a goal of reducing and ultimately ending the Justice Department’s use of private prisons.

In a one-page memo to the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons, Sessions wrote that the August 2016 memo by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates “changed long-standing policy and practice, and impaired the Bureau’s ability to meet the future needs of the federal correctional system.”

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That must have cost the prison lobby a bundle, but not as much as it will cost the US taxpayer

 

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If you're going to do it might as well take the bigest swing you can.

 

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