Jeff Sessions' Crackdown on Crime Will be a Boon for Private Prisons

4,782 views · Published 24 May 2017 · 4:52 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: The Humanist Report · 2017 · News & Politics

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a directive to federal prosecutors: "charge suspects with the most serious offense you can prove." His crackdown on crime will be a boon to America's prison industrial complex, and it will surely harm marginalized minorities disproportionately, as "mandatory minimums" and other "tough on crime" measures have proven to do.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/opinions/sessions-is-wrong-rand-paul-opinion/

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