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Ex-DEA Employee Gets Probation for Embezzling Drug Enforcement Funds

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Embezzling $1,800 from the DEA will cost a former employee one year of probation and 50 hours of community service, the Tribune-Review reports. U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose delivered the sentenced Monday to Holly Cook, 43, of Monongahela, Pa. Cook pleaded guilty in May to taking $1,800 from a locked cash box…

AG Holder Calls for More Lenient Sentences for Drug Offenders to Handle Prison Overcrowding

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Attorney General Eric Holder has a partial solution to the U.S.’s massive prison overcrowding – less time for drug offenders. The Associated Press reports that Holder is addressing overcrowding by favoring drug treatment and community service programs in lieu of long prison sentences. He also support the early release of some elderly inmates….