Monday, August 12, 2013

I agree with AG Holder. Mandatories has done very little to end the drug economies in the USA.

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the U.S. facing massive overcrowding (click here) in its prisons, Attorney General Eric Holder called Monday for major changes to the nation's criminal justice system that would scale back the use of harsh sentences for certain drug-related crimes.
In remarks to the American Bar Association in San Francisco, Holder said he also favors diverting people convicted of low-level offenses to drug treatment and community service programs and expanding a prison program to allow for release of some elderly, non-violent offenders.
"We need to ensure that incarceration is used to punish, deter and rehabilitate — not merely to convict, warehouse and forget," Holder said....

It is a very bold move that will be appreciated by prisons around the country. They don't need people in them that need a job or help with an addition. I like it. Well done.

I hope this will return authority to judges to find better outcomes. I sincerely believe this will result in alternative sentencing to place people into GED programs, jobs and community service. This decision has a wide ranging outcome if the judges take themselves seriously enough to return citizenship to people and rehab our society.