Trump DOJ Poised To Issue Major New Guidance Seeking Harsher Sentences -- TPM

Justice Department officials have been weighing new guidance that would encourage prosecutors to charge suspects with the most serious offenses they can prove, a departure from Obama-era policies that aimed to reduce the federal prison population and reshape the criminal justice system. ...
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