Attorney General Eric Holder: Cut Mandatory Minimum Sentences

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August 15, 2013 – Segment 2

We turn to national news, focusing first on Attorney General Eric Holder’s speech this week about cutting mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders. Our guests include:

• Neill Franklin, Executive Director of LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) and a 33-year police veteran;
• ER Shipp, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Journalist-in-Residence and Associate Professor of Journalism at Morgan State University;
• and Brentin Mock, New Orleans-based journalist and reporter for Colorlines.

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