Jeff Sessions Orders Harsher Sentences, Taking U.S. Policy Back to 1980s

On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo ordering Justice Department staff to charge criminal suspects - specifically low-level, non-violent drug offenders - with the most severe crime possible and pursue the toughest sentences allowed, rolling back progress made under the Obama administration.

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“It is core principle that prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense,”

Think Sessions has stock in for profit prisons? Or is he just going after low-hanging fruit to pad the numbers?