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.
