In an unprecedented move, the US Justice Department is charging five Chinese military officers with cyber espionage. And the charges are not being well-received in China.In an unprecedented move, the US Justice Department is charging five Chinese military officers with cyber espionage. And the charges are not being well-received in China.
Faced with overcrowded prisons, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a series of reforms to the way certain drug offenders are handled by the U.S. federal legal system. Of the 2.3 million Americans incarcerated, half are charged with drug-related crimes.
For decades, U.S. law forced federal judges to impose severe prison sentences on nonviolent drug offenders. Under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Congress mandated a minimum sentence of five years without parole for possession of five grams of crack cocaine, for example, and federal judges could not consider mitigating circumstances in sentencing. But this […]
Today Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce some substantial changes in how low-level drug offenders are prosecuted, overriding pre-existing federal laws that impose mandatory minimum sentences for drug-related offenses. The Justice Department will offer drug treatment programs for low-level offenders instead of jail time and early release for some current elderly inmates who […]