Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In her latest defiance of the Obama administration, DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart is unwilling to support a bill to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for federal drug crimes, the Huffington Post reports. Leonhart has departed with the administration on reforms to drug policies heralded by President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. “Having…
By San Francisco Gate Editorial Board When Barack Obama ran for the White House in 2008, federal inmates and their families believed that if he won, miracles would follow. They were convinced that the former law professor and critic of federal mandatory minimum sentences would be liberal with his unfettered constitutional power to free low-level…
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….
