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TXNORML: Sentences for low-level drug offenders & Prison overcrowding @ KTBC, August 12, 2013

Some Quotes: Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said, "I'd rather not tie up an officer, you know, taking somebody to jail with a small quantity of marijuana. And the meantime, somebody is hiding in their closet. Somebody broke in. I'd rather have that unit freed up to go deal with that imminent threat to public safety." Later, legal adviser for Texas NORML, Jamie Spencer, added: "The good news is what Attorney General Holder said this morning is the first time that, not only this administration, but any administration has said what many of us have been shouting from the rooftops for decades. That this forty year experiment in mass-incarceration is socially, economically, and perhaps most importantly, he acknowledged it was morally wrong, what we are doing, to low-level offenders by incarcerating them for long periods of time, and some people would say by incarcerating them at all." Read More At: http://www.myfoxaustin.com/