CSPAN Attorney General Eric Holder On Sentencing Reform February 17, 2015
, nearly half of all federal inmates were serving time for drugrelated offenses. As many of you have thoroughly reported, the state of affairs not only had serious financial limitations for our country, it also exacted a human and moral toll that is impossible to calculate. Studies show that the policies that impose these costs have not had a Significant Impact in making our communities measurably safer. The persistence of the status quo demanded that National Criminal justice leaders really closely examine our institutions and reorient our practices. So that all that all americans deserve. Un...