FAMM Applauds Justice Department’s Call for Sentencing Reform, Changes in Prosecutorial Practices and Compassionate Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2013 Contact: Monica Pratt Raffanel, media@famm.org or 202-822-6700 WASHINGTON, DC – FAMM president Julie Stewart today welcomed the U.S. Justice Department’s proposals for reforming federal criminal sentencing laws and prosecutorial charging practices. Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Department’s proposed reforms in a speech to the American Bar Association today in San Francisco. “For the past 40 years, the Department of Justice, under both political parties, has promoted mandatory minimum sentencing like a one-way ratchet. Federal