Source: VOA NEWS
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently ordered federal prosecutors to charge criminal suspects with the most serious offenses they can prove, which could result in more incarcerations and longer prison sentences.
Sessions wrote in a statement that this new policy “affirms our responsibility to enforce the law, is moral and just, and produces consistency.”
Sessions defended this order by arguing that it is necessary to combat violence in major cities and the country’s opioid epidemic.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who served under the Obama administration, said Sessions’ new policy is “dumb on crime” and will “take this nation back to a discredited past.”
Supporters of Obama’s policies argue that Sessions’ order will bring back the worst aspects of the government’s war on drugs.
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