Holder Calls for Reduced Sentences for Low-Level Drug Offenders
Holder calls for reduced sentences for low-level drug offenders
He traveled to several cities, including Philadelphia and Peoria, Ill., to highlight drug treatment programs that serve as alternatives to prison for low-level offenders. The attorney general said his initiative would save the government billions of …
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City to consider drug law reform
… that a similar approach of eliminating incarceration for personal-use quantities of drug possession in Portugal over a decade ago reduced problemaic drug use, overdose deaths and HIV infections and led to more drug users seeking voluntary treatment.
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