Jeff Sessions wants to grow the prison population...Nashville sheriff says that's unfortunate

[Tanuki]

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/15/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-speak-nashville-tn-today-live-stream/420230002/?for-guid=BC714A91-11B1-E311-A863-D067E5FDA1C5

"During a speech (to the International Association of Chiefs of Police convention) Thursday in Nashville, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions embraced a goal of growing the prison population — a stark contrast to some efforts of local officials here and elsewhere across the nation.

Sessions largely stuck to the kind of hard-line, law-and-order message that animated the candidacy of President Donald Trump. He bemoaned the fact that the federal prison population had dropped in recent years — from 220,000 to 180,000 — and pledged to pursue longer sentences moving forward.
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Pursuing mandatory minimum sentences, which have been criticized by advocates of criminal justice reform, would be "a good step in the right direction," he said.
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But Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall, who did not attend the conference, pushed back at Sessions' assertion that putting more people in prison would increase community safety.
“It’s unfortunate that the attorney general, or anybody for that matter, believes that jail space should be filled," Hall said in an interview.
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Nashville's jail population has dropped dramatically in recent years — it's down about 30 percent since 2015, Hall said.
The sheriff is collaborating with the district attorney, the public defender and Nashville judges to create a plan to shrink the jail population even further by sending fewer misdemeanor suspects to jail before trial. And the new downtown jail under construction now will house up to 700 inmates, 600 fewer than the previous facility. The new jail also will include a treatment center for suspects with mental illnesses or addictions that drive their behavior.
Hall said that approach — treating people instead of locking them up — would have a better long-term impact on the city."....(more)

[riversedge]

1. as I said many times, this is why Trump will not fire Sessions--he is mean and good at what

he does! lock em up, no treatment for drug addicts. private prisons. go after immigrants, DACA folks, families. Anything mean fits Sessions and he has Trumps blessing.

[safeinOhio]

2. Bull Dog Bob Mueller

is on it at this moment.