WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to maintain current drug charging policies that give federal prosecutors discretion not to charge the mandatory minimum for nonviolent, low-level drug cases, instead of requiring them to charge one-size-fits-all penalties.
Mandatory minimum penalties, the Senators state in a letter to Sessions, are one of the largest drivers of mass...
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