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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-issues-sweeping-new-criminal-charging-policy/2017/05/11/4752bd42-3697-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?pushid=5915967efdd5491d0000003f&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.fa1e408d7bcc

Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.

The Holder memo, issued in August 2013, instructed his prosecutors to avoid charging certain defendants with drug offenses that would trigger long mandatory minimum sentences. Defendants who met a set of criteria such as not belonging to a large-scale drug trafficking organization, gang or cartel, qualified for lesser charges — and in turn less prison time — under Holder's policy.

But Sessions's new charging policy, outlined in a two-page memo and sent to more than 5,000 assistant U.S. attorneys across the country and all assistant attorneys general in Washington, orders prosecutors to ”charge and purse the most serious, readily provable offense" and rescinds Holder's policy immediately.

How lovely, let's continue to add more people to the prison population so they can get out and become real criminals because their lives have been ruined. Drug war being ratcheted up once again.

 

[FrontalMonk]

News flash: Sessions is a shitstain.

Ugh.

 

[Spaced Harrier]

How about mandatory execution for treason?

 

[Cyanity]

Can we mandatorily execute Sessions for being a giant twat?

 

[jon bones]

Fingers crossed this hits heroin-infested areas - nothing pushes back for legal reform like when white people are affected

 

[TWrecks310]

A reminder that Jeff Sessions got lots of money from private prisons so he's gonna try his best to get every black person in there he can.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

this is why voting libertarian because of weed is truly truly stupid

 

[AlexMogil]

Fingers crossed this hits heroin-infested areas - nothing pushes back for legal reform like when white people are affected

Kinda funny he was in Charleston WV saying this stuff. Most of the state should have taken a nice long pause at what he was saying.

 

[HStallion]

Fingers crossed this hits heroin-infested areas - nothing pushes back for legal reform like when white people are affected

Its gonna fucking crush places like that and its a fucking shame. Jeff Sessions needs to get the boot, dude is pure fucking scum.

 

[theWB27]

A reminder that Jeff Sessions got lots of money from private prisons so he's gonna try his best to get every black person in there he can.

He also made a move to allow more for profit prisons to be built.

There's a defense force for alot of stuff on gaf... still haven't seen one forb sessions.

 

[veryslowhand]

In the States can you go to jail for posesion to self consume?

 

[BriGuy]

Gonna be a fuckload of opioid abusing Trump voters missing the 2018 and 2020 elections.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

this is why voting libertarian because of weed is truly truly stupid

then again, I guess if you're white, you don't really have to worry, even if you do drugs?

so maybe your libertarian vote only fucked other people and not yourself

 

[Bandini]

Just what this country doesn't need, more families broken up by mandatory minimum sentencing for drugs that are primarily used by minorities. Children growing up in poverty with no male role model. The cycle continues. Shame on Jeff Sessions.

 

[hawkshockey11]

In the States can you go to jail for posesion to self consume?

Yup and with minimum mandatory sentencing it can be for a long time.

 

[Snowybreak]

In the States can you go to jail for posesion to self consume?

Yeah. Possession by itself is a crime. If you are in possession of a controlled substance, you can be arrested for it.

 

[Shadybiz]

Gotta feed that private prison money machine, am I right?!!!

...What an absolute disgrace this man is. Demented looking Keebler elf motherfucker.

 

[plagiarize]

When something doesn't work, and is widely understood to have been a bad idea.

You just need to try again.

Spoiler

Because fuck black people.

I presume that's how the AG thinks.

 

[Foffy]

Fuck this dweeb.

 

[TWrecks310]

In the States can you go to jail for posesion to self consume?

Yup it sounds dumb doesn't it

 

[UberTag]

For-profit prisons just got an early Christmas present. Their next recruitment blitz will be one for the ages.
Let's see how high of a percentage of the US populace you can have incarcerated.

 

[BlueTsunami]

More like guaranteed income for private prisons

 

[shnurgleton]

Sessions must be prepping for the Duterte visit

 

[Occam]

No mandatory sentencing for perjury?

 

[gcubed]

Maybe Congress should get rid of mandatory minimum instead of having this stupid back and forth dance

 

[Zaph]

please don't rush to racist southern stereotypes guys

e: reference

 

[acheron_xl]

Voter suppression has many faces.

 

[Random Painted HIghway]

A Completely unsurprising result of this election.

 

[Pakkidis]

Private prisons must be very happy

 

[Mango Positive]

Who knew that a Keebler elf could be so fucking evil?

 

[ItIsOkBro]

absolutely shocking coming from a man deemed too racist in the 80s

 

[compo]

please don't rush to racist southern stereotypes guys

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck.

 

[Heroman]

please don't rush to racist southern stereotypes guys

If the hood fits.

 

[SpaceCadetKeon]

please don't rush to racist southern stereotypes guys

I live in the south, and this man's a fucking racist.

 

[deadlast]

please don't rush to racist southern stereotypes guys

Sessions ain't "black people like watermelon and chicken" racist. He's straight up Lynch black people and don't let them have a seat at the table racist. The fact he is in charge of the civil rights protection agency is absolutely fucking disgusting.

 

[OmnipotentO]

smfh. For profit prisons full of black men. Sessions wet dream come true.

 

[SuperEpicMan]

 

[Angry Grimace]

What's the mandatory minimum sentence for being a traitor

 

[Acorn]

Their list of policies is just reduce anything positive since Reagan to ashes.

 

[entremet]

This guys is pure scum.

 

[acheron_xl]

What's the mandatory minimum sentence for being a traitor

Cabinet position.

 

[Shadybiz]

Also gotta wonder if the man has any financial interests in for profit prisons....

 

[Abstrusity]

Ey yo Canada, do you think we could get a little 1812 love sometime soon?

 

[ForsakenLotus]

Gotta ruin as many lives as you can you evil bastard.

 

[le.phat]

YO

 

[ReplacementPelican]

A reminder that Jeff Sessions got lots of money from private prisons so he's gonna try his best to get every black person in there he can.

I honestly don't know how its possible for a human being to be such a piece of shit, go into something that's supposed to at least help society (even if that idea has been somewhat lost) and then just become a complete and utter shit.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

But Hillary said superpredators, so it's all good.

 

[djplaeskool]

please don't rush to racist southern stereotypes guys

It's hard not to mock a person who's first two names are Jefferson Beauregard

 

[Apathy]

Guess they didn't like so many minorities not being in jail. This is bullshit. Mandatory minimums are a giant scam that does nothing to stop actual crimes. This is disgusting.

 

[Poker Face]

wow i am surprised a racist conservative would do such a thing.

who could have seen this coming??