Cenk Uygur
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Jeff Sessions Demands "Strongest Possible Charges" For Drug Users
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13:14Now PlayingMore jail time means more money for the private prison companies that fund the Republican party. Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, John Iadarola, and Alonzo Bodden, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"In a memo released Friday, Sessions instructed federal prosecutors nationwide to seek the strongest possible charges and sentences against defendants they target. “It is a core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense,” he wrote. “This policy fully utilizes the tools Congress has given us. By definition, the most serious offenses are those that carry the most substantial guidelines sentence, including mandatory-minimum sentences.”
Friday’s policy change effectively rescinds Obama-era guidelines for federal prosecutors that were designed to curtail the harshest sentences for defendants charged with low-level drug offenses. The previous memo, first promulgated by then-Attorney General Eric Holder in 2013, reserved the most severe options in the federal sentencing guidelines for “serious, high-level, or violent drug traffickers” instead of defendants charged with lower-level offenses.”*
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Ben Mankiewicz, John Iadarola, Alonzo Bodden
Cast: Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, John Iadarola, Alonzo Bodden
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Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. A young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations.(American Heritage Dictionary)
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