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Friday, November 16, 2018

One term president waves surrender flag on drug war, signs on to criminal justice reform, no one will be executed


President Donald Trump’s support has put Congress within reach of passing the most sweeping set of changes to the federal criminal justice system since the 1990s, when fear of crime drove the enactment of draconian sentencing practices that shipped hundreds of thousands of drug offenders to prison.