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.

Oh thank goodness. FINALLY.

You'll definitely want to read this eye-opener about the U.S.’s growing for-profit detention industry: http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-u.s.s-growing-for-profit-detention-industry

Disgusting. Not everything should exploit the profit motive.

http://www.businessinsider.com/one-chart-that-will-make-you-ashamed-minimum-sentencing-reform-only-happened-now-2013-8?