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Holder seeks to avert mandatory minimum sentences for some low-level drug offenders

Holder seeks to avert mandatory minimum sentences for some low-level drug offenders

Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images - Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a farewell ceremony in honor of outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller at the Department of Justice on August 1, 2013.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is set to announce Monday that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or large-scale drug organizations will no longer be charged with offenses that impose severe mandatory sentences.

The new Justice Department policy is part of a comprehensive prison reform package that Holder will reveal in a speech to the American Bar Association in San Francisco, according to senior department officials. He is also expected to introduce a policy to reduce sentences for elderly, nonviolent inmates and find alternatives to prison for nonviolent criminals.


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