Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered federal
prosecutors this week to seek the maximum punishment for drug offenses,
in one of the clearest breaks yet from the policies of the Justice
Department under the Obama administration.
The move is an abrupt departure from policy
made by President Barack Obama's attorney general, to reduce the number
of people convicted of certain lower-level drug crimes being given long
jail terms.
The change, "affirms our responsibility to
enforce the law, is moral and just, and produces consistency," Sessions
said, in a memo to federal prosecutors written May 10 and made public
Friday.
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