Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo to Federal Prosecutors on Friday to reverse his predecessor’s directive to, when appropriate, seek less severe sentences for some drug offenses. This return to much more robust prosecution of drug offenses will lead to many more and much longer prison sentences. We already spend some $40 billion per year to prosecute and house the approximately 300,000 drug offenders in the US, many of whom non-violent. The one trillion dollar, nearly half-century war on drugs has bee an utter failure and a return to harsher penalties will do nothing to solve the problem. Why will it fail? Tune in to today’s Liberty Report:
Jeff Sessions’ Authoritarian Drug Crackdown Won’t Work
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