Sessions decries Oklahoma's homicide, overdose death rates
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October 20, 2017
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told dozens of Oklahoma sheriffs on Tuesday that policymakers should exercise caution when considering easing tough sentencing laws, a hot political topic in a state with one of the highest incarceration rates in the country.
"The truth is that the problem we face today is not a sentencing problem, it's a crime problem," Sessions said during a meeting of the Oklahoma Sheriff's Association in Midwest City. "If we want to bring down our prison population, we need to bring down crime."
Sessions also defended his agency's civil asset f...
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