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    Attorney General Holder Testifies on Mandatory Sentencing Reform

    Democrats and Republicans agree that our prisons are overcrowded, expensive and ineffective. Today, AG Eric Holder laid out a set of reforms that might well be adopted.

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    By Warren Olney • Mar 13, 2014 • 51m Listen

    Democrats and Republicans now agree: America's prisons are overcrowded, vastly expensive and ineffective. Fifty percent of the inmates in federal prisons are in for drug crimes. Today, Attorney General Eric Holder laid out a set of reforms that might well be adopted. Also, Russian Troops mass near Ukraine's eastern border, and the dispute between the CIA and US Senator Dianne Feinstein about the constitutional separation of powers… and the CIA's alleged abuse of prisoners during the so-called War on Terror.

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      former KCRW broadcaster

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