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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
Department of Justice Issues Revised Drug Sentencing Guidelines: August 12, 2013
Department of Justice Issues Revised Drug Sentencing Guidelines: August 12, 2013
On August 12, 2013, in a speech before the American Bar Association (ABA), Attorney General Eric Holder announced a policy shift that would allow some low-level, nonviolent drug offenders to avoid mandatory minimum sentences. This, Holder anticipated, would begin freeing up law enforcement and court officials to deal with more serious offenders, and would also alleviate some overcrowding of America's jails and prisons.
Mandatory Sentencing Minimums
In 1971, then-President Richard Nixon called for a “War on Drugs,” an all-out effort that increased the size and force of drug control agencies and heavily target marijuana, crack, and cocaine users and distributors. Subsequent presidents, including Ronald Reagan and ...
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