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Sessions orders return to tough drug war policies that trigger mandatory minimum sentences
Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions has ordered federal prosecutors to return to tough policies against drug abusers, ending a push by the Obama administration to clear prisons of lower-level criminals serving long, mandatory minimum sentences.
He rescinded two policy memos signed by a predecessor, former Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., that told prosecutors to be cautious in their use of methods that can produce dramatically harsher jail terms.
In a memo released Friday, Sessions instructed Justice Department lawyers to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense."
By definition, he added, the most serious offenses “carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimum sentences.”
He rescinded two policy memos signed by a predecessor, former Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., that told prosecutors to be cautious in their use of methods that can produce dramatically harsher jail terms.
In a memo released Friday, Sessions instructed Justice Department lawyers to “charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense."
By definition, he added, the most serious offenses “carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory minimum sentences.”
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-politics-sessions-drugwar-20170511-story.html
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