{"id":1040,"date":"2014-02-10T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T21:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:29:52","slug":"facing-overcrowded-prisons-us-wants-to-cut-drug-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2014\/02\/10\/facing-overcrowded-prisons-us-wants-to-cut-drug-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing overcrowded prisons, US wants to cut drug sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2014\/02\/Attorney-Holder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1044\" title=\"Attorney Holder\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/files\/2014\/02\/Attorney-Holder-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>US federal prisons are overcrowded and are\u00a0housing more than 40% of inmates than they were designed to hold. The number of inmates held in federal custody has increased by 500% and continuously increasing. The majority of inmates are serving sentences for drug-related offenses. Attorney General Eric Holder has proposed his ideas on how the criminal justice system should change and would reduce the number of sentences served because of a non-violent crime committed. Holder devised a plan that would free up prisons and limit the number of non-violent offenders in jail. Rather, prosecution will avoid using the \u201cmandatory minimum\u201d as a form of punishment, but\u00a0direct offenders to drug treatment and community service programs. Attorney Holder gave a speech back in August speaking on his views of the vicious cycle of the criminal justice system that is weakening communities. He believes that the\u00a0criminal justice\u00a0system is doing nothing in its power to alleviate the problem. <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/holder-drug-sentences-cut-394\/\">Read More.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &nbsp; US federal prisons are overcrowded and are\u00a0housing more than 40% of inmates than they were designed to hold. The number of inmates held in federal custody has increased by 500% and continuously increasing. The majority of inmates are serving sentences for drug-related offenses. Attorney General Eric Holder has proposed his ideas on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17,2,21,25,28,1],"tags":[23,26,27,29,30],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corrections","category-court-decisions","category-federal-corrections","category-federal-courts","category-non-violent-offenders","category-uncategorized","tag-attorney-general-holder","tag-federal-prisons","tag-non-violent-crimes","tag-prison-news","tag-reduce-inmates","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}