Criminal,
Civil Rights
Jun. 8, 2017
Back to the future with Jeff Sessions
Sessions' effort to revive decades-old thinking about crime and punishment will inevitably contribute to a rise in the federal prison population and will be counterproductive to promoting public safety.
Marc Mauer
Marc Mauer is executive director of The Sentencing Project, a research and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. Learn more at www.sentencingproject.org
Kara Gotsch
Director of Strategic Initiatives
The Sentencing Project
Kara Gotsch is director of Strategic Initiatives of The Sentencing Project
President Donald J. Trump's commitment to a "tough on crime" ethos was on full display last month when his Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a directive to federal prosecutors to charge the most serious provable offense and seek the longest possible sentence in federal criminal cases. The Sessions memorandum overturned previous Department of Justice policy initiated by former Attorney General Eric Holder that had called on prosecutors to use their discretion to avoid imposing mandatory...
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