USA TODAY: Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday will endorse proposed reductions to federal sentencing guidelines for non-violent drug offenders, which would cut average prison sentences by 11 months.
In testimony prepared for delivery before the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Holder said the changes would “rein in federal prison spending while focusing limited resources on the most serious threats to public safety.”
The changes, if adopted later this year, would reduce the federal prison population by an estimated 6,550 inmates in five years. Of the 216,000 inmates in the federal system, about half have been convicted of drug-related crimes… (more)
