New Bill Aims to Curb Prison Populations – But Can It Get Past Jeff Sessions?

There's a debate raging in Trump's Washington that many lawmakers had thought was nearly settled over how to reform the nation's criminal justice system so the hundreds of thousands of people locked up annually over nonviolent crimes can leave their cells and re-enter society. While a bipartisan effort was picking up steam in Congress last year to reverse the tide of mass incarceration, things

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