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Holder aims to ease prison overcrowding

Name: Holder aims to ease prison overcrowding
Uploaded: 2013-08-12T09:12:51-0400
Duration: 1 min 20 s
Description: The US Attorney General is pitching a plan to ease the overcrowding in prisons. Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the criminal justice system - that include scaling back sentences for some drug related crimes. Tara Mergener reports from Washington, D.C.

The US Attorney General is pitching a plan to ease the overcrowding in prisons. Eric Holder is calling for major changes to the criminal justice system - that include scaling back sentences for some drug related crimes. Tara Mergener reports from Washington, D.C.